The story
- Latin · derived frommacula
- Corsican · derived frommachja
- French · borrowed frommaquis
- English todaymaquis
Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican machja (related to Italian macchia), ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macula.
Words from the same roots
Corsicanmachja all →
macchia
Latinmacula all →
mailmaculamacchiamaclemacula lutea
First known use, by meaning
- from 19th c. Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub.
- from 1940s The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.