maquerel
Old French
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly from a derivative of Latin macula (“stain, spot”), referring to the skin. Connections with maquereau (“pimp”) are dubious.[1][2]
Noun
maquerel 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
- → English: mackerel
- French: maquereau
- Norman: maqu'sé (Jersey)
References
- 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