macer
Meaning
- adjectivelean, skinny, meager
- adjectivethin, poor
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Laniena · Macellum
Laniena is the butcher’s stall, where the lanius sells slaughtered and ready-jointed meat; macellum, the market in which the macellarius sells all sorts of meat, including poultry and fish.
Exilis · Macer · Gracilis · Tenuis
Exilis and macer denote leanness, with reference to the interior substance and with absolute blame, as a consequence of want of sap, and of shrivelling; exilis (from egere, exiguus,) generally as applicable to any material body, and as poverty and weakness, in opp. to uber, Cic. Or. i. 12; macer (μακρός, meagre,) especially to animal bodies, as dryness, in opp. to pinguis, Virg. Ecl. iii. 100; whereas gracilis and tenuis, with reference to the exterior form, indifferently or with praise; tenuis (τανύς, thin), as approaching to the notion of delicate, and as a general term, applicable to all bodies, in opp. to crassus, Cic. Fat. 4. Vitruv. iv. 4; but gracilis as approaching to the notion of tall, procerus, and especially as applicable to animal bodies, like slender, in opp. to opimus, Cic. Brut. 91; obesus, Cels. i. 3, 30. ii. 1. Suet. Dom. 18. (v. 25.)
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | in -er macer, macellus | macra macella | macrum macellum |
| genitive | macrī macellī | macrae macellae | macrī macellī |
| dative | macrō macellō | macrae macellae | macrō macellō |
| accusative | macrum macellum | macram macellam | macrum macellum |
| ablative | macrō macellō | macrā macellā | macrō macellō |
| vocative | macer macelle | macra macella | macrum macellum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | macrī macellī | macrae macellae | macra macella |
| genitive | macrōrum macellōrum | macrārum macellārum | macrōrum macellōrum |
| dative | macrīs macellīs | macrīs macellīs | macrīs macellīs |
| accusative | macrōs macellōs | macrās macellās | macra macella |
| ablative | macrīs macellīs | macrīs macellīs | macrīs macellīs |
| vocative | macrī macellī | macrae macellae | macra macella |
taurus, opp. pinguis, Verg. E. 3, 100: boves, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 12; Juv. 14, 146: turdi, Hor. S. 1, 5, 72: mustela, id. Ep. 1, 7, 33: ostreae inuberes et macrae, Gell. 20, 8; Quint. 6, 3, 58.—Of parts of the body: in macerrimis corporis partibus, Sen. Ep. 78, 8.—Humorously of a person: valeat res ludicra si me Palma negata macrum donata reducit opimum, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 181: nec pharetris Veneris macer est, Juv. 6, 138.— ager macrior, Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 2: macerrimi agri, Col. 11, 2, 7: stirpes, id. 3, 10, 3: vineae, id. 8, 1, 2: libellus, meagre, thin, Mart. 2, 6, 10: ut dignus venias hederis et imagine macra, Juv. 7, 29.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*meh₂ḱ-
- Proto-Indo-European*mh₂ḱrós
- Proto-Italic*makros
- Latinmacer
Inherited from Proto-Italic *makros, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós, from *meh₂ḱ- + *-rós. Cognate with Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós), Old English mæġer (though English meager is from the Latin via French).
- Italianmagro
- Italianmàghero
- Dalmatianmuogro
- Neapolitanmagro
- Neapolitanmacro
- Sicilianmagru
- Catalanmagre
- Occitanmagre
- Valdôtainmairofrom Franco-Provençal mégro
- Valdôtainmaigrofrom Franco-Provençal mégro
- Valdôtainmèrofrom Franco-Provençal mégro
- Auvergnatmaigrefrom Occitan magre
- Auvergnatmuegrefrom Occitan magre
- Provençalmaigrefrom Occitan magre
- Vivaro-Alpinemaigrefrom Occitan magre
- Old Frenchmeigre
- Portuguesemagrofrom Old Galician-Portuguese magro
- Spanishmagro
- Mirandesemagro
- Galicianmagrofrom Old Galician-Portuguese magro
- Romanianmacru
- Aromanianmacru
- Friulianmagri
- Emilianmègher
- Emilianmègar
- Emilianmègre
- Ligurianmagru
- Lombardmàgher
- Piedmontesemaire
- Piedmontesemair
- Piedmontesemèir
- Piedmontesemèr
- Piedmontesemàgher