mace
English
/meɪs/
noun
Definitions
- A heavy fighting club.
- A ceremonial form of this weapon.
- A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
- An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
- A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
- (archaic) A billiard cue.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English mace (mace) derived from Old French mace derived from Latin *mattia, mateola (hoe, implement for digging in the soil).
Origin
Latin
mateola
Gloss
hoe, implement for digging in the soil
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- macelike English
- reed English
- reedmace English
- *mattea Latin
- *mattea, *ma(t)tea Latin
- *matteūca Latin
- *mattia Latin
- macellum Latin
- mateola Latin
- mattia Latin
- ammazzare Italian
- mazza Italian
- mazzafrusto Italian
- mazziere Italian
- macero Spanish, Castilian
- maza Spanish, Castilian
- *mat Proto-Indo-European
- mace Middle English
- macer Middle English
- mace Old French
- măciucă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- 메이스 Korean