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macer

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See also: mācer

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English macer, from Anglo-Norman macer, from mace (mace).

Noun

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macer (plural macers)

  1. A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. [from 14th c.]
    Synonym: mace-bearer

Etymology 2

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Noun

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macer (plural macers)

  1. (slang) A cardsharp.
    • 1981, John E. Gardner, The Return of Moriarty, page 7:
      Indeed, Moran was a profession cheat, a sharper of more than ordinary dimensions — a macer, in criminal parlance. He had made card sharping a life's work — second only to shooting []

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From maça +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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macer m (plural macers, feminine macera)

  1. mace-bearer

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *makros, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós, from *meh₂ḱ- (to increase). Cognate with Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós), Old English mæġer (though English meager is from the Latin via French).

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Adjective

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macer (feminine macra, neuter macrum, comparative macrior, superlative macerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

  1. (of living things) lean, skinny, meager
  2. (of inanimate things) thin, poor

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative macer macra macrum macrī macrae macra
genitive macrī macrae macrī macrōrum macrārum macrōrum
dative macrō macrae macrō macrīs
accusative macrum macram macrum macrōs macrās macra
ablative macrō macrā macrō macrīs
vocative macer macra macrum macrī macrae macra

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • macer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • macer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • macer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • macer”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 793: “maigre” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 185: “magro; magri” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • maigre” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Anglo-Norman macer; equivalent to mace (mace) +‎ -er (agentive suffix).

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmaːsər/, /maːˈsɛːr/

Noun

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macer (plural macers)

  1. A macer; a mace-bearer (official)
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Etymology 2

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From Old English *maser.

Noun

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macer

  1. Alternative form of maser