maccis

Latin

Etymology 1

Compare macir. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

maccis f (genitive maccidis); third declension (hapax)

1. (hapax) a bogus spice
   • c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 830–832:

     nam egó cocilendrum quando in patinas indidi
     aut cepolendrum aut maccidem aut secaptidem,
     eaepse sese [patinae] fervefaciunt ilico.

     For when I’ve put cocilendrum into the skillets
     or cepolendrum or maccis or secaptis,
     these skillets become hot in an instant.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	maccis	maccidēs
genitive	maccidis	maccidum
dative	maccidī	maccidibus
accusative	maccidem	maccidēs
ablative	maccide	maccidibus
vocative	maccis	maccidēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

maccīs

1. dative/ablative plural of maccus

References

• “maccis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• maccis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.