mason

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a craftsman who works with stone or brick

   A mason repaired the old stone wall.

2. 2
   noun

   A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick.

   A mason repaired the old stone wall.

From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō (“carpenter, bricklayer”), from Frankish *makjō (“maker, builder”), a derivative of Frankish *makōn (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *metn-, *met- (“to cut”).

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