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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μάκαι (Mákai).
Proper noun
Macae m pl (genitive Macārum); first declension
- A tribe of Cyrenaica, settled on the river Cinyps
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “Macae2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Macae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Macae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly