macor
Latin
Etymology
By surface analysis, maceō (“to be lean”) + -or. Adams and Mallory suggest that the term may relate to Ancient Greek μῆκος (mêkos) and Avestan masah, both of which reflect Proto-Indo-European *méh₂ḱos. However, this etymology is not supported by Wodtko et al. (2008). De Vaan merely lists the term as a derivative of macer.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈma.kɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmaː.kor]
Noun
macor m (genitive macōris); third declension
- (pre-classical) leanness, meagreness
- Synonym: maciēs
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | macor | macōrēs |
| genitive | macōris | macōrum |
| dative | macōrī | macōribus |
| accusative | macōrem | macōrēs |
| ablative | macōre | macōribus |
| vocative | macor | macōrēs |
Related terms
References
- “macor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “macor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), “*mhₐkrós”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 574
- Wodtko, Dagmar S.; Irslinger, Britta; Schneider, Carolin (2008), Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 478
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “macer”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 356-357