maquis
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican machja (related to Italian macchia), ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macula.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmakiː/, /maˈkiː/
Noun
maquis (uncountable)
- (botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. [from 19th c.]
- (historical) The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. [from 1940s]
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 75:
- By this time O.S. membership numbered some 4,500, and many of those who escaped imprisonment either fled abroad or formed the nucleus of a growing maquis in the more inaccessible parts of the country.
- 1983 December 3, Gary Ralph, “No Security for Those Who Never Had It”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 5:
- For many weeks after I finished Bodyguard of Lies, Alan Turing stuck in my mind. He seemed so incongruous a figure to be mixed up with the cut-throat maquis and sinister double-agents who populated the rest of the book.
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French
Etymology
From Corsican machja or macchia, from Latin macula (“spot”), with addition of the suffix -is.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.ki/
Noun
maquis m (plural maquis)
- (botany) macchia (Mediterranean brush)
- (botany) thicket
- Synonym: broussaille
- (figuratively, historical, military) resistance, underground (movement during World War II)
- Synonym: guérilla
Derived terms
Further reading
- “maquis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican macchia, from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula. Doublet of mancha, malha, mágoa, mangra, and mácula.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /maˈkis/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /maˈkiʃ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɐˈkiʃ/
- Hyphenation: ma‧quis
Noun
maquis m or f by sense (invariable)
- maquis (member of the French resistance during the Second World War)
Romanian
Declension
Declension of maquis
Spanish
Noun
maquis m or f by sense (plural maquis)
Further reading
- “maquis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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