mac

See also: mać, mač, maç, mác, mãc, mặc, mắc, mạc, mąć, mac-, Mac, Mác, MAC, and Mac.

English

Pronunciation
  • enPR: măk, IPA(key): /mæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackintosh.

Noun

mac (plural macs)

  1. Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
Translations
mackintosh — see mackintosh

Etymology 2

Clipping of macaroni.

Noun

mac (uncountable)

  1. (Canada, US, slang) Clipping of macaroni.
    Is there any mac and cheese left?
Derived terms

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

  1. (colloquial, slang) Clipping of maquereau (“pimp”).

Etymology 2

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

  1. (colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.

Further reading

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), (compare Welsh mab, Gaulish mapos, Maponos).

Pronunciation

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, nominative plural mic)

  1. son
  2. A common prefix of many Irish and Scottish names, signifying "son of".
    Dónall óg donn Mac Lochlainn ― young, brown-haired Donald, son of the Scandinavian

Declension
Declension of mac

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mac mic
Vocative a mhic a mhaca
Genitive mic mac
Dative mac mic

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mac na mic
Genitive an mhic na mac
Dative leis an mac

don mhac

 leis na mic

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mac mhac not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

K'iche'

Noun

mac

  1. (Classical K'iche') sin

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, thin”).

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mec)

  1. son

Derived terms

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
macvacunchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Romanian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *makъ (“poppy”), compare Serbo-Croatian and Polish mak.

Noun

mac m (plural maci)

  1. poppy
Declension
declension of mac
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mac macul (niște) maci macii
genitive/dative (unui) mac macului (unor) maci macilor
vocative macule macilor

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

mac

  1. quack (sound made by ducks)

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, thin”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [maʰk], [maxk]

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mic)

  1. son
  2. Commonly used as a prefix of Irish and Scottish surnames, meaning son.
    MacDhòmhnaill (“MacDonald”, literally “son of Donald, Donaldson”)

Derived terms
  • macail (“filial”, adjective)
  • mac-an-aba m (“ring finger”)
  • uchd-mhac m (“adopted son”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
macmhac
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
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