maccis

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Latin

Etymology 1

Compare macir. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

maccis f (genitive maccidis); third declension (hapax)

  1. (hapax) a bogus spice
    • c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 830–832:
      nam egó cocilendrum quando in patinas indidi
      aut cepolendrum aut maccidem aut secaptidem,
      eaepse sese fervefaciunt ilico.
      For when I’ve put cocilendrum into the skillets
      or cepolendrum or maccis or secaptis,
      these skillets become hot in an instant.
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative maccis maccidēs
genitive maccidis maccidum
dative maccidī maccidibus
accusative maccidem maccidēs
ablative maccide maccidibus
vocative maccis maccidēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

maccīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of maccus

References

  • “maccis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • maccis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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