machacre
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Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French macacre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), from Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing; the head of a newly killed stag”), from Middle Low German *matskelen (“to massacre”), frequentative of matsken, matzgen (“to cut, hew”), from Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“small”).
Noun
[edit]machacre m (plural machacres)
Derived terms
[edit]- machacrer (“to massacre”)