machacre
Norman
Etymology
From Old French macacre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), from Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing; the head of a newly killed stag”), from Middle Low German *matskelen (“to massacre”), frequentative of matsken, matzgen (“to cut, hew”), from Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“small”).
Noun
machacre m (plural machacres)
- (Jersey) massacre
Derived terms
- machacrer (“to massacre”)