macla

Borrowed from French macle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.kla/
• Rhymes: -akla
• Hyphenation: mà‧cla

macla f (plural macle)

1. (botany, rare) synonym of drusa

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

• macla:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.kɫa]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.kla]
• maclā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.kɫaː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.kla]

macla f (genitive maclae); first declension

1. medieval spelling of macula

First-declension noun.

• "macla", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from French macle, either from Latin macula (from Italic) or from Medieval Latin mascula (from Germanic); see French and English macle for more.

macla f (plural maclas)

1. (crystallography) crystal twinning (intergrowth of crystals)

• “macla”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “macla”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French macle, from Medieval Latin mascula, from a Germanic source.

macla f (plural maclas)

1. (heraldry) mascle
2. (crystallography) crystal twinning

• “macla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025