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MacBook en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *makkʷos Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi) Old Irish macc Middle Irish mac Scottish Gaelic mac Scottish Gaelic an Proto-Celtic *to- Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Proto-Indo-European *wéydtus Proto-Celtic *wissus Proto-Celtic *towissus Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂kos Proto-Celtic *-ākos Proto-Celtic *towissākos Primitive Irish ᚈᚑᚃᚔᚄᚐᚉᚔ (tovisaci) Old Irish toísech Scottish Gaelic tòisiche Scottish Gaelic Mac an Tòisiche English McIntosh English Macintosh Old French notebor. Middle English note English note Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.? Proto-Germanic *bōks Proto-West Germanic *bōk Old English bōc Middle English bok English book English notebook blend English MacBook A trademark; apparently a blend of Macintosh + notebook.

Meanings

1. A MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.
   • 2008 March 18, “Now Blogging: Israel's Secret Service”, Bryant Park Project, National Public Radio Now, normally, you would trip, you'd get back up, but apparently he was carrying his fancy new MacBook Air, and he was trying to save the MacBook Air from falling […]
   • Hooo, boy! Sometimes I just can't let things rest. I have the new MacBook Pro. 2006, Maria Langer, Miraz Jordan, WordPress 2, page 135:
   • In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook. 2007 November 11, Jay McInerney, “Faking It”, in New York Times:
   • The faux hippie dude working on his top-of-the-line seventeen-inch MacBook Pro looked way annoyed. 2007, Paul Ruditis, Everyone's a Critic, Simon and Schuster,, →ISBN, page 52:
   • I felt like such a wimp, sitting there with my MacBook and a 2 percent, decaf latte. 2008, Stephen James, David Thomas, How to Hit a Curve Ball, Grill the Perfect Steak, and Become a Real Man, Tyndale House Publishers,, →ISBN, page 114:

Forms

Relateds

iBook · PowerBook · Mac · Macintosh

Translations (6)

pt MacBook (device) · es MacBook (device) · nl MacBook (device) · pl MacBook (device) · de MacBook (device) · fr MacBook (device)