macio

Galician

From Latin macies (“leanness”), which is from macer (“thin”).

macio (feminine macia, masculine plural macios, feminine plural macias)

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “macio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “macio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “macio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From earlier *matiō, *mattiō, borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“someone who cuts, stonecutter”).

maciō m (genitive maciōnis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin)

Uncertain. Possibly from massa (“dough”) +‎ -io. Or, from Arabic ماسي (masi). Also compare Italian and Latin malacia, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”). Cognates with Proto-Slavic *mękъkъ (“soft”).

macio (feminine macia, masculine plural macios, feminine plural macias, comparable, comparative mais macio, superlative o mais macio or maciíssimo)

From Mandarin 麻雀 (máquè, “sparrow”).

macio

Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎^[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN