maquerel
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Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain, possibly from a derivative of Latin macula (“stain, spot”), referring to the skin. Connections with maquereau (“pimp”) are dubious.[1][2]
Noun[edit]
maquerel oblique singular, m (oblique plural maquereaus or maquereax or maqueriaus or maqueriax or maquerels, nominative singular maquereaus or maquereax or maqueriaus or maqueriax or maquerels, nominative plural maquerel)
- mackerel (fish)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (maquerel, supplement)
- ^ “maquerel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ 'Dieu veult'. God wills it. The Banbury female martyr [E. Redford], composed by herself