machete

From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.

• IPA^(key): /məˈʃɛ.ti/, /məˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/

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machete (plural machetes)

1. A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or as a weapon. The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick.

   Synonyms: bolo, sundang

2. A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.

• bolo
• panga
• sundang

• machete beta

• bolo
• cleaver
• golok (Indonesian)
• knife
• hatchet
• parang

machete (third-person singular simple present machetes, present participle macheting or macheteing, simple past and past participle macheted)

1. To cut or chop with a machete.

   After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.

2. To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.

   You can't just machete about with a rapier and expect to succeed; you need to thrust properly.

• meetcha

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑˈʃɛ.tə/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧che‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛtə

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete

   Synonym: kapmes

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

machete

1. machete.

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑʃete/, [ˈmɑ̝ʃe̞t̪e̞]

machete

1. machete

• viidakkoveitsi

From macho +‎ -ete.

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete
2. mediocre method for obtaining somewhat accurate results; shortcut

• machetada

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish machete.

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃɛ.te/, /maˈt͡ʃe.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛte, -ete
• Hyphenation: ma‧chè‧te, ma‧ché‧te

machete m (invariable)

1. machete

• machete in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Spanish machete.

machete m (definite singular macheten, indefinite plural macheter, definite plural machetene)

1. a machete

• “machete” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Spanish machete.

machete m (definite singular macheten, indefinite plural machetar, definite plural machetane)

1. a machete

• “machete” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete

From macho (“sledgehammer”) +‎ -ete.

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃete/ [maˈt͡ʃe.t̪e]
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• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: ma‧che‧te

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete
2. mediocre method for obtaining somewhat accurate results; shortcut

• “machete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

machete c

1. a machete (knife)

• machete in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• machete in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

machete

1. machete

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎, segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 22