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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *makrós, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós, from *meh₂ḱ- (“to increase”). By surface analysis, μῆκος (mêkos) + -ρός (-rós). Cognates include Latin macer and Old English mæger.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.krós/ → /maˈkros/ → /maˈkros/
Adjective
μᾰκρός • (makrós) m (feminine μᾰκρᾱ́, neuter μᾰκρόν); first/second declension
- long
- tall, deep
- far, distant
- (time) long
- (grammar, of vowels) long
Inflection
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “long”): βραχύς (brakhús)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “μακρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μακρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μακρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μακρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μακρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μακρός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3117 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ample idem, page 28.
- big idem, page 78.
- capacious idem, page 111.
- circuitous idem, page 132.
- commodious idem, page 148.
- distant idem, page 240.
- extensive idem, page 296.
- far idem, page 306.
- great idem, page 372.
- lank idem, page 476.
- large idem, page 476.
- lengthy idem, page 485.
- lingering idem, page 493.
- livelong idem, page 496.
- long idem, page 498.
- long-winded idem, page 498.
- palatial idem, page 589.
- prolix idem, page 653.
- prolong idem, page 653.
- remote idem, page 694.
- roundabout idem, page 723.
- spacious idem, page 797.
- tedious idem, page 859.
- verbose idem, page 948.
- voluminous idem, page 956.
- windy idem, page 981.
- wordy idem, page 988.
- “μακρός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011