maquis

Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican machja (related to Italian macchia), ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macula.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmakiː/, /maˈkiː/

maquis (uncountable)

1. (botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. [from 19th c.]
   • 2007 May 27, Alida Becker, “Season in the Sun”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The older man claims to find a measure of peace in Corsica’s wild landscape, and as Mitchell explores the foothills of maquis, fragrant with “the sharp resinous smell of laurel rose and thyme,” he too succumbs.

2. (historical) The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. [from 1940s]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 75:

     By this time O.S. membership numbered some 4,500, and many of those who escaped imprisonment either fled abroad or formed the nucleus of a growing maquis in the more inaccessible parts of the country.

   • 1983 December 3, Gary Ralph, “No Security for Those Who Never Had It”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 5:

     For many weeks after I finished Bodyguard of Lies, Alan Turing stuck in my mind. He seemed so incongruous a figure to be mixed up with the cut-throat maquis and sinister double-agents who populated the rest of the book.

• umiaqs

maquis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of macar

From Corsican machja or macchia, from Latin macula (“spot”), with addition of the suffix -is.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ki/

maquis m (plural maquis)

1. (botany) macchia (Mediterranean brush)
2. (botany) thicket

   Synonym: broussaille

3. (figuratively, historical, military) resistance, underground (movement during World War II)

   Synonym: guérilla

• maquisard
• prendre le maquis

• → English: maquis
• → Portuguese: maquis
• → Spanish: maquis

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

Unadapted borrowing from French maquis (“resistance, underground”, literally “thicket; macchia”), from Corsican machja or macchia, from Latin macula (“spot”).

maquis

1. (historical) maquis: The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere

• “maquis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• maqui

Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican macchia, from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula. Doublet of mancha, malha, mágoa, mangra, and mácula.

• Hyphenation: ma‧quis

maquis m (invariable)

1. maquis; macchia (type of brushland common in Corsica)

maquis m or f by sense (invariable)

1. maquis (member of the French resistance during the Second World War)

Unadapted borrowing from French maquis.

maquis n (plural maquis-uri)

1. maquis, macchia

Borrowed from French maquis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmakis/ [ˈma.kis]
• Rhymes: -akis
• Syllabification: ma‧quis

maquis m or f by sense (plural maquis)

1. maquis (Resistance during the Second World War)
2. maquis (member of the Resistance during the Second World War)

• “maquis”, 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