mason

Meanings

Noun

• A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick
• One who prepares stone for building purposes.
• A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

Verb

• To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons

Origin

• From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō ("carpenter, bricklayer"), from a derivative of Frankish *makōn ("to work, build, make"), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- ("to knead, mix, make"), conflated with *mati, from Proto-Germanic *matją, *mattukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mat- ("hoe, mattock").