mascle

From Middle English maskel, maskle, maskle, from Medieval Latin mascula, from Germanic source. Cognate with Medieval Latin macula and Old French macle, macule. Compare English mesh). Doublet of mail.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæskəl/

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mascle (plural mascles)

1. (historical) A lozenge-shaped piece of metal, used in making scale mail.
2. (heraldry) A lozenge with a smaller lozenge-shaped hole in the centre.

• “mascle”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “mascle”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “mascle”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

• mescal, Malecs, scamel, Camels, Mescal, camels, macles

Inherited from Vulgar Latin masclus, from Latin masculus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmas.klə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmas.kle]

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mascle m (plural mascles)

1. a male

   Antonym: femella

2. pin, peg, plug

   connector mascle ― male connector

3. tap (tool for cutting internal screw threads)

   Antonym: filera

• falguera mascle, (Valencia) falaguera mascle
• masclejar
• masclet
• masclisme
• masclista

• masculí
• viril

mascle (feminine mascla, masculine and feminine plural mascles)

1. (figuratively) energetic in a virile manner

• “mascle”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmas.kɫɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmas.kle]

mascle

1. vocative singular of masclus

mascle

1. alternative form of male

mascle

1. alternative form of male