adjective
macte
macte (indeclinable)
Classical[ˈmak.tɛ]Ecclesiastical[ˈmak.te]
Meaning
- indeclinablebe blessed (with)
- indeclinablebe blessed for your courage, well done
- indeclinablebe blessed (for), hurray (for)
- indeclinablebravo, well done
macte and macti, v. mactus.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
macte, mactī see mactus.
Origins
Normally the vocative masculine singular form of mactus, the adjective became frozen and a quasi-interjection.