# maquis
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈmakiː/, /maˈkiː/

### Noun

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

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* umiaqs

## Catalan
### Verb

maquis
* second-person singular present subjunctive of macar

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ki/

### Noun

maquis m (plural maquis)
* (botany) macchia (Mediterranean brush)
* (botany) thicket
    Synonym: broussaille
* (figuratively, historical, military) resistance, underground (movement during World War II)
    Synonym: guérilla

#### Derived terms

* maquisard
* prendre le maquis

#### Descendants

* → English: maquis
* → Portuguese: maquis
* → Spanish: maquis

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

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

### Further reading

* “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.

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* maqui

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /maˈkis/
* (Brazil) IPA: /maˈkis/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /maˈkiʃ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɐˈkiʃ/
* Hyphenation: ma‧quis

### Noun

maquis m (invariable)
* maquis; macchia (type of brushland common in Corsica)

### Noun

maquis m or f by sense (invariable)
* maquis (member of the French resistance during the Second World War)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French maquis.

### Noun

maquis n (plural maquis-uri)
* maquis, macchia

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French maquis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmakis/ [ˈma.kis]

### Noun

maquis m or f by sense (plural maquis)
* maquis (Resistance during the Second World War)
* maquis (member of the Resistance during the Second World War)

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10