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Mac-

/mək/

Mac- prefix: a patronymic used to form common Irish and Scottish names, similar to the English -son.

Prefix

Mac-

  1. A patronymic used to form common Irish and Scottish names, similar to the English -son.

Origin of Mac-

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic mac (“son”).

Questions about Mac-

What does Mac- mean?
Mac- means a patronymic used to form common Irish and Scottish names, similar to the English -son.
What part of speech is Mac-?
Mac- is a prefix.
How do you pronounce Mac-?
Mac- is pronounced /mək/.

Words near Mac- in the dictionary

  1. mac salad
  2. mac salads
  3. Mac Town
  4. mac'n cheese
  5. mac'n'cheese
  6. Mac-
  7. MAC-48
  8. mac-and-cheesy
  9. Mac.
  10. maca
  11. Macaalang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mac- (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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