Maquíssima
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Dia
December 20, 2011, 08:22 AM
Hi there..
I was wondering what does it mean when someone says 'Maquíssima' while describing something beautiful like
Sembles una model a la foto! Maquíssima!
Regards
Dia
poli
December 20, 2011, 08:54 AM
I don't think it's Castillian, but maybe it's Italian, Portuguese, Catalan or
Gallego. My first guess is Italian.
mikemacabre
December 20, 2011, 09:06 AM
Google translator detects it as Spanish but doesn't give a translation. I have never seen that word before. i'm interested to see what other say about it. Maybe its a slang word in Spanish?
wrholt
December 20, 2011, 09:28 AM
By form it is a superlative of "maco" or "maca". There are a variety of meanings in different on-line dictionaries; the only one that's an adjective (maco/maca) shows up at rae.es, defined as "malo, pícaro, bellaco", along the lines of "rogue/roguish". I think that poli's suspicion that this is slang is correct.
Rusty
December 20, 2011, 11:57 AM
The sentence in the OP is written in Catalan. The word in question means 'very nice'.
aleCcowaN
December 20, 2011, 02:42 PM
maquíssima (Catalan) = guapísima (Castilian)
Dia
January 03, 2012, 09:08 PM
Thanks very much for the response :-)
Don José
January 04, 2012, 05:37 AM
By the way, "maqueado" in Spain is a colloquial word that means to be all dressed up.
http://es.thefreedictionary.com/maqueado
I didn't know it, but looking in the RAE dictionary:
maque= laca, barniz (lacquer, polish...)
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