mac

• enPR: măk, IPA^(key): /mæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Clipping of mackintosh.

mac (plural macs)

1. Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).

Clipping of macaroni.

mac (uncountable)

1. (Canada, US, slang) Clipping of macaroni.

   Is there any mac and cheese left?

• mac 'n' cheese

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam, mca

• IPA^(key): /mak/

mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, slang) Clipping of maquereau (“pimp”).

mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.

• “mac” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), (compare Welsh mab, Gaulish mapos, Maponos).

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /mˠɑk/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /mˠaːk/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /mˠak/

mac m (genitive singular mic, nominative plural mic)

1. son
2. A common prefix of many Irish and Scottish names, signifying "son of".

   Dónall óg donn Mac Lochlainn ― young, brown-haired Donald, son of the Scandinavian

• iníon (“daughter”)

• "mac" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 mac, macc”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

mac

1. (Classical K'iche') sin

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, thin”).

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mec)

1. son

• mac-

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 mac, macc”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /mak/

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *makъ (“poppy”), compare Serbo-Croatian and Polish mak.

mac m (plural maci)

1. poppy

Onomatopoeic.

mac

1. quack (sound made by ducks)

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, thin”).

• IPA^(key): [maʰk], [maxk]

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mic)

1. son
2. Commonly used as a prefix of Irish and Scottish surnames, meaning son.

   MacDhòmhnaill (“MacDonald”, literally “son of Donald, Donaldson”)

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 mac, macc”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN