macer
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See also: mācer
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English macer, from Anglo-Norman macer, from mace (“mace”).
Noun
macer (plural macers)
- A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.
- Synonym: mace-bearer
Etymology 2
Noun
macer (plural macers)
- (slang) A cardsharp.
- 1981, John E. Gardner, The Return of Moriarty, page 7:
- Indeed, Moran was a profession cheat, a sharper of more than ordinary dimensions — a macer, in criminal parlance. He had made card sharping a life's work — second only to shooting […]
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
macer m (plural macers, feminine macera)
Further reading
- “macer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *makros, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós, from *meh₂ḱ- (“to increase”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós), Old English mæġer (though English meager is from the Latin via French).
Pronunciation
Adjective
macer (feminine macra, neuter macrum, comparative macrior, superlative macerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | macer | macra | macrum | macrī | macrae | macra | |
| Genitive | macrī | macrae | macrī | macrōrum | macrārum | macrōrum | |
| Dative | macrō | macrō | macrīs | ||||
| Accusative | macrum | macram | macrum | macrōs | macrās | macra | |
| Ablative | macrō | macrā | macrō | macrīs | |||
| Vocative | macer | macra | macrum | macrī | macrae | macra | |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “macer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “macer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- macer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “macer”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 793: “maigre” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 185: “magro; magri” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- “maigre” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman macer; equivalent to mace (“mace”) + -er (“agentive suffix”).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
macer (plural macers)
- A macer; a mace-bearer (official)
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:
- Meires and maceres · that menes ben bitwene / Þe kynge and þe comune.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
References
- “mācē̆re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.
Etymology 2
From Old English *maser.
Noun
macer
- Alternative form of maser