macero
Ido
Italian
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ-. Compare the Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō, “knead”), the Lithuanian makonė, the Old Church Slavonic мокръ (mokrŭ, “wet”), and the Russian мочи́ть (močítʹ, “to wet”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.ke.roː/, [ˈmaː.kɛ.roː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.t͡ʃe.ro/, [ˈmaː.t͡ʃe.ro]
Verb
mācerō (present infinitive mācerāre, perfect active mācerāvī, supine mācerātum); first conjugation
- I soften, make tender by soaking or steeping
- I weaken, waste away
- (figuratively) I vex, torment, distress
- (Medieval Latin) I mortify (discipline, chastise, or subject to severe privation for the atonement of sins)
- (Medieval Latin) I torture
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- mācĕro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- macero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mācĕro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 934/1
- “mācerō” on page 1,057/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “macerare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 623/2
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