English

maphack

From map + hack.

A compound of map + hack

Medieval Latin mappa mundī

Old French mapamonde ‘world map’

Middle English mappemounde ‘world map’

English map

Proto-Indo-European *keg-

Proto-Germanic *hakkōną ‘to chop’

Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn ‘to hack, chop’

Old English *haccian ‘to hack’

Middle English hacken

English hack

Today it means

noun A patch enabling a player to cheat by viewing more of the game map than is actually visible to him or her.

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