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Mâcon

/ma.kɔ̃/

proper noun/ma.kɔ̃/

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

Related: Mâconnais, mâconnais, mâcon

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”).