verb
maccare
*maccare
Meaning
- Proto Italo Western Romancereconstructionto batter, strike, bruise, dent
Origins
Uncertain, possibly a variant of maculāre (“to stain”), altered for onomatopoeic reasons.
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italianmaccare
- Italianammaccare
- Italianmacco
- Corsicanammaccà
- Neapolitanammaccare
- Sicilianammaccari
- Venetanmacar
Ibero-Romance
- Spanishmacar
- Spanishmaca
- Portuguesemacar
Gallo-Romance
- Catalanmacar
- Occitanmacar
In English words that came into English from maccare
- macaroni*maccare