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Latin
Etymology
Normally the vocative masculine singular form of mactus, the adjective became frozen and a quasi-interjection.
Pronunciation
Adjective
macte
- vocative masculine singular of mactus
Adjective
macte (indeclinable)
- (addressed to deities, macte estō with abl.) be blessed (with)
- (addressed to people, macte virtūte (estō)) be blessed for your courage, well done
- (macte (estō) with abl. or rarely gen. or acc.) be blessed (for), hurray (for)
- (quasi-interjection) bravo, well done
References
- “macte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “macte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- macte in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- macte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) good luck to you: macte virtute (esto or te esse iubeo)