machete

From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.

• IPA^(key): /məˈʃɛ.ti/, /məˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/

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machete (plural machetes)

1. A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.

   Hypernym: knife (sometimes construed as coordinate)

   Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang

2. A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.

machete (third-person singular simple present machetes, present participle macheting or macheteing, simple past and past participle macheted)

1. (transitive) To cut or chop with a machete.

   After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.

• meetcha

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑˈʃɛ.tə/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧che‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛtə

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete

   Synonym: kapmes

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

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

machete

1. machete.

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑʃete/, [ˈmɑ̝ʃe̞t̪e̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑʃete

machete

1. machete

• viidakkoveitsi

From macho +‎ -ete.

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete
2. a mediocre method for obtaining somewhat accurate results; a shortcut

• machetada

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish machete.

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

machete m (invariable)

1. machete

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

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈmaxətə/

machete

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative/subjunctive of machen

From Spanish machete.

machete m (definite singular macheten, indefinite plural macheter, definite plural machetene)

1. a machete

• “machete” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Spanish machete.

machete m (definite singular macheten, indefinite plural machetar, definite plural machetane)

1. a machete

• “machete” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete

   Synonym: facão

From macho (“sledgehammer”) +‎ -ete.

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃete/ [maˈt͡ʃe.t̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: ma‧che‧te

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete
2. mediocre method for obtaining somewhat accurate results; shortcut
3. (Cuba, slang, term of address) man, bro, homie

• “machete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “machete”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

machete c

1. a machete (knife)

   Han högg av honom armen med macheten

   He chopped his arm off with the machete

   Han högg sig fram genom regnskogen med macheten

   He chopped his way [chopped himself forth] through the rainforest with his machete

• machete in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• machete in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

machete

1. machete

• 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., page 22