maçã

From Old Galician-Portuguese maçãa, from Vulgar Latin māla Mattiāna (literally “apples of Mattium”), though some theorize that Mattiāna was an Iberian pronunciation of the Gallo-Roman word matianium, a golden apple named after Gaius Matius, a horticulturist and friend of Caesar.^[1]

Cognate with Galician mazá, Aragonese and Asturian mazana, Mirandese maçana and Spanish manzana (Old Spanish maçana).

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• Rhymes: -ɐ̃
• Hyphenation: ma‧çã

maçã f (plural maçãs)

1. apple (fruit)

   Synonyms: pero, (poetic) pomo

• maçãzinha (diminutive)
• maçãzona (augmentative)
• macieira (“apple tree”)