Etymology

macho

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Today it means: Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way. Very masculine. Full definition →

Spanish macho ← Latin masculus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frommasculus
  2. Spanish · borrowed frommacho“male”
  3. English todaymacho

Borrowed from Spanish macho (“male”), from Latin masculus. Doublet of male.

Words from the same roots

Spanishmacho all →

machismo

Latinmasculus all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.