mactus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *maktos, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱtós, from *meh₂ḱ- (“to increase”). Cognate with macer.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmak.tus/, [ˈmäkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmak.tus/, [ˈmäkt̪us]

Adjective

mactus (feminine macta, neuter mactum); first/second-declension adjective

1. glorified, worshiped, honored, adored

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mactus	macta	mactum		mactī	mactae	macta
genitive	mactī	mactae	mactī		mactōrum	mactārum	mactōrum
dative	mactō	mactae	mactō		mactīs
accusative	mactum	mactam	mactum		mactōs	mactās	macta
ablative	mactō	mactā	mactō		mactīs
vocative	macte	macta	mactum		mactī	mactae	macta

Derived terms

• macte
• mactō

References

• “mactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mactus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) good luck to you: macte virtute (esto or te esse iubeo)