Matisco

Borrowed from the local name, 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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maˈtɪs.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [maˈt̪is.ko]

Matiscō f sg (genitive Matiscōnis); third declension

1. A town of the Aedui in Gallia Lugdunensis, now Mâcon

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• French: Mâcon
  • English: Macon, Mascon

• “Matisco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Matisco”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Matisco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.