mât

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mat"

Chrau

Numeral

mât

1. ten

Emilian

Alternative forms

• mat (Mirandola)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mât

Noun

mât m (plural mât) (Modena, Reggio Emilia)

1. insane

Synonyms

• matùs (Carpigiano)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French mast, from Old French mast, from Early Medieval Latin mastus, from Frankish *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma/ ~ /mɑ/

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Noun

mât m (plural mâts)

1. (nautical) mast
2. flagstaff

Derived terms

• mâter
• démâter

Further reading

• “mât”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• AMT

Norman

Etymology

From Old French mast, from Frankish *mast, from Early Medieval Latin mastus, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Noun

mât m (plural mâts)

1. (Jersey, nautical) mast
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 534:

     Cherne à la lune, jamais n'a fait amenaïr mât d'hune.

     A circle round the has never caused top-mast to be struck.

Derived terms

• mât d'artimon (“mizzen mast”)
• mât d'heune (“top-mast”)
• mât d'mîsaine, mât d'avant (“foremast”)
• mât d'pèrrotchet (“topgallant mast”)