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Latin
Etymology
Use as a masculine proper noun of the feminine common noun macula (“a disfiguring spot, stain, or blemish on the skin”).
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key):
Proper noun
Macula m sg (genitive Maculae); first declension
- a Roman cognomen
- Quintus Pompeius Macula
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cicero to this entry?)
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Măcŭla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Măcŭla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 935/2.