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Mâcon.

Mâcon (a city and commune, the prefecture of Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)

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name/ma.kɔ̃//mɑ.kɔ̃/
  1. Mâcon (a city and commune, the prefecture of Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)

    feminine · masculine
Where this word comes from

A development of earlier Mascon, from Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) (from Proto-Celtic *matus, commonly understood as a euphemistic derivation from *matis (“good”)) and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).

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