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Latin
Etymology
macer (“lean”, “meagre”) + -tūdō (forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition)
Noun
macritūdō f (genitive macritūdinis); third declension
- leanness, thinness, skinniness
- meagreness
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “macritudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- macritudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.