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4-letter words (3 found)

ACME,CAME,MACE,

3-letter words (5 found)

ACE,AME,CAM,MAC,MAE,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,AM,EA,EM,MA,ME,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from mace according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of mace

mace amce mcae cmae acme came maec amec meac emac aemc eamc mcea cmea meca emca cema ecma acem caem aecm eacm ceam ecam

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Definitions and meaning of mace

mace

Pronunciation

(etymologies 1-3 (club, spice, tear gas)):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /meɪs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪs

Etymology 1

From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).

Noun

mace (plural maces)

  1. A heavy fighting club.
  2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
  3. 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.
  4. An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
  5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
  6. (archaic) A billiard cue.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

  1. To hit someone or something with a mace.
See also
  • bludgeon
  • celt
  • twirling baton
  • warclub

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from re-interpretation of macys as a plural (as with pea); from Latin macir. Doublet of macir.

Noun

mace (uncountable)

  2. A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
Descendants
  • → Japanese: メース (meisu)
  • → Maori: meihi
Translations

Etymology 3

From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (etymology 2 above), which is a different spice; rather, it was named after the weapon (etymology 1).

Noun

mace (countable and uncountable, plural maces)

  1. Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
Translations

Verb

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

  1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
  2. (informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?] and Malay [Term?], meaning "a bean".

Pronunciation

Noun

mace (plural maces)

  1. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
  2. An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
    Synonyms: chee, tsien

References

  • “mace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • ACME, Acme, ECMA, EMAC, acme, came, eMac

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • maçe
  • mac (eastern Gheg)
  • macë

Etymology

Alternative variant of macë (“cat”), ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *maca, likely an onomatopoeic expression.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mat͡sɛ/ (Standard)
  • IPA(key): /mãːt͡s/, /mõːt͡s/ (eastern Gheg)

Noun

máce f (plural máce, definite mácja, definite plural mácet)

  1. (zoology) cat
  2. (figurative, derogatory) belligerent, wild woman

Declension

Related terms

  • macë f
  • mackë f
  • maç m
  • maçok m

See also

  • dac

Noun

mace

  1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of macë

References

Further reading

  • [2] noun mace/máce (cat) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

Galician

Verb

mace

  1. inflection of mazar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Hausa

Etymology

Derived from mā̀tā through an adverbial form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mà.t͡ʃèː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [mə̀.t͡ʃèː]

Noun

màcḕ f (plural mātā, possessed form màcèn)

  1. woman
  2. female

Usage notes

The possessed form may be seen as derogatory or ungrammatical by many speakers, and is often replaced by mā̀tar̃, the possessed form of mā̀tā.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French mace, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, probably from Latin mateola (“hoe”).

Alternative forms

  • maas, masse, mase, maiis

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaːs(ə)/

Noun

mace (plural maces)

  2. A war club or mace.
  3. A club used for ceremonial purposes or as part of regalia.
Related terms
  • macer
Descendants
  • English: mace
  • Scots: mace
References
  • “māce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.

Etymology 2

Noun

mace

  1. Alternative form of macys

Etymology 3

Noun

mace

  1. Alternative form of masse

Old French

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, itself probably derived from Latin mateola (“hoe”).

Noun

mace oblique singular, f (oblique plural maces, nominative singular mace, nominative plural maces)

  1. mace (weapon)
Alternative forms
  • mache (Picardy)
Descendants
  • French: masse
  • → Middle English: mace, maas, masse, mase, maiis
    • English: mace
    • Scots: mace

Etymology 2

From Latin macir.

Noun

mace oblique singular, f (oblique plural maces, nominative singular mace, nominative plural maces)

  1. mace (spice)

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (mace, supplement)
  • mace on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Portuguese

Verb

mace

  1. inflection of maçar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

mace

  1. inflection of mazar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Taraon

Etymology

Compare Idu माची

Pronunciation

  • (Darang Deng) IPA(key): /mɑ³¹tɕi⁵³/

Noun

mace

  1. water

References

  • Roger Blench, Mark Post, (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (2011) (as macey)
  • Jatan Pulu, A Phrase Book on Taraon Language (1991) (as mace or in running text often macẽ)
  • Huang Bufan (editor), Xu Shouchun, Chen Jiaying, Wan Huiyin, A Tibeto-Burman Lexicon (1992; Central Minorities University, Beijing)

Source: wiktionary.org