măciucă

See also: măciuca, Măciuca, and Măciucă

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown. Cognate to Aromanian mãtsucã. Often considered to be from the Vulgar Latin root *matteūca, itself from *mattea or Latin mateola + a suffix *-ūca, of possibly Gallic origin (compare French massue, Occitan maçuga, Portuguese maça, machuca, Old Galician-Portuguese massuca, Italian mazza, mazzocca, Venetan mazuco), or an expressive creation based on the root măc-. Compare also Italian maciulla, Spanish machucar. The first element may derive ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mat- (“hoe, plow”).

Alternatively from Vulgar Latin mattiūca, itself from Late Latin mattia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈt͡ʃʲukə/
• Rhymes: -ukə
• Hyphenation: mă‧ciu‧că

Noun

măciucă f (plural măciuci)

1. club, bludgeon
2. (slang) penis

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	măciucă	măciuca		măciuci	măciucile
genitive-dative	măciuci	măciucii		măciuci	măciucilor
vocative	măciucă, măciuco			măciucilor

Derived terms

• măciulie

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: мачу́к (mačúk), мачу́га (mačúga)
• → Polish: maczuga