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Verb
macero
- first-person singular present indicative of macerar
Ido
Noun
macero (plural maceri)
- maceration, digestion
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Endingless past participle of macerare.
Adjective
macero (feminine macera, masculine plural maceri, feminine plural macere)
- soaked, steeped, macerated
- beaten, bruised
Etymology 2
Deverbal from macerare + -o.
Noun
macero m (plural maceri)
- maceration
- pulping (of old books, etc.)
- carta da macero (figurative, pejorative) ― pulp (book or magazine)
- vessel used for macerating
- Synonym: maceratoio
Etymology 3
Verb
macero
- first-person singular present indicative of macerare
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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱeseh₂ti, from *meh₂ǵ-, *meh₂ḱ- (“to knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō, “knead”), Lithuanian makonė, Old Church Slavonic мокръ (mokrŭ, “wet”), Russian мочи́ть (močítʹ, “to wet”).
Pronunciation
Verb
mācerō (present infinitive mācerāre, perfect active mācerāvī, supine mācerātum); first conjugation
- to soften, make tender by soaking or steeping
- to weaken, waste away
- (figuratively) to vex, torment, distress
Livius Andronicus,
Odusia 8:
- namque nūllum peiius / mācerat hūmānum
quamde mare saevom.- For nought vexes man worse than the raging sea.
- (Medieval Latin) to mortify (discipline, chastise, or subject to severe privation for the atonement of sins)
- (Medieval Latin) to torture
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References
- “mācĕro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “macero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mācĕro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 934/1.
- “mācerō” on page 1,057/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “macerare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 623/2
Portuguese
Verb
macero
- first-person singular present indicative of macerar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /maˈθeɾo/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /maˈseɾo/
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: ma‧ce‧ro
Etymology 1
From maza + -ero.
Noun
macero m (plural maceros, feminine macera, feminine plural maceras)
- mace-bearer
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
macero
- first-person singular present indicative of macerar
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