machacre

Norman

Etymology

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

machacre m (plural machacres)

(Jersey) massacre

Derived terms

machacrer (“to massacre”)

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