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English

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a machete

Etymology

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FromSpanishmachete, diminutive ofmacho(“sledgehammer”), fromLatinmattea, possibly frommactare(“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate withOld Frenchmachier,Frenchmassue, Englishmace.

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Noun

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machete (pluralmachetes)

  1. Asword-liketool used forcutting largeplants with achopping motion, or used as aweapon.
    Hypernym:knife(sometimes construed as coordinate)
    Near-synonyms:(all sometimes or regionally synonymous)bolo,golok,panga,parang,sundang
    • 1992,Neal Stephenson,Snow Crash, page384:
      It breaks loose one rope at a time, haphazardly, tossing the Filipinos up into the air. A boy with amachete cuts the one remaining line, which pops up and lashes him across the face.
  2. A smallstringed instrument fromMadeira,Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.

Derived terms

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Translations

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a sword-like tool

See also

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Verb

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machete (third-person singular simple presentmachetes,present participlemacheteing,simple past and past participlemacheted)

  1. (transitive) To cut or chop with a machete.
    After some hours of intense work, we hadmacheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromSpanishmachete.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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machete m (pluralmachetes,nodiminutive)

  1. machete
    Synonym:kapmes

Further reading

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  • “machete” inWoordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromSpanishmachete.

Noun

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machete

  1. machete.

Finnish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromSpanishmachete.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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machete

  1. machete

Declension

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Inflection ofmachete (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominativemachetemachetet
genitivemachetenmachetejen
partitivemacheteamacheteja
illativemacheteenmacheteihin
singularplural
nominativemachetemachetet
accusativenom.machetemachetet
gen.macheten
genitivemachetenmachetejen
macheteinrare
partitivemacheteamacheteja
inessivemachetessamacheteissa
elativemachetestamacheteista
illativemacheteenmacheteihin
adessivemachetellamacheteilla
ablativemacheteltamacheteilta
allativemachetellemacheteille
essivemachetenamacheteina
translativemacheteksimacheteiksi
abessivemachetettamacheteitta
instructive—machetein
comitativeSee the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms ofmachete(Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)

Synonyms

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Galician

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Etymology

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Frommacho +‎-ete.

Noun

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machete m (pluralmachetes)

  1. machete
  2. a mediocremethod for obtaining somewhat accurate results; ashortcut

Derived terms

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromSpanishmachete.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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machete m (invariable)

  1. machete

Further reading

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

Middle High German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE)/ˈmaxːətə/

Verb

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machete

  1. first/third-personsingularpreteriteindicative/subjunctive ofmachen

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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FromSpanishmachete.

Noun

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machete m (definite singularmacheten,indefinite pluralmacheter,definite pluralmachetene)

  1. amachete

References

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromSpanishmachete.

Noun

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machete m (definite singularmacheten,indefinite pluralmachetar,definite pluralmachetane)

  1. amachete

References

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromSpanishmachete.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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machete m (pluralmachetes)

  1. machete
    Synonym:facão

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Frommacho(“sledgehammer”) +‎-ete.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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machete m (pluralmachetes)

  1. machete
  2. mediocremethod for obtaining somewhat accurate results;shortcut
  3. (Cuba, slang, term of address)man,bro,homie
  4. (Venezuela, vulgar, slang)penis

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Descendants

Further reading

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Swedish

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Noun

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machete c

  1. amachete (knife)
    Hanhögg av honom armen medmacheten
    He chopped his arm off withthe machete
    Han högg sig fram genom regnskogen medmacheten
    He chopped his way [chopped himself forth] through the rainforest withhis machete

Declension

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Declension ofmachete
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitemachetemachetes
definitemachetenmachetens
pluralindefinitemachetermacheters
definitemacheternamacheternas

References

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Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromSpanishmachete.

Noun

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machete

  1. machete

References

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  • Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006),Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎[1], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page22
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