maculo

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Verb

maculo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of macular

Italian

Adjective

maculo (feminine macula, masculine plural maculi, feminine plural macule)

  1. synonym of pesto

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From macula (a spot, stain).

Pronunciation

Verb

maculō (present infinitive maculāre, perfect active maculāvī, supine maculātum); first conjugation

  1. to stain, make spotted
  2. to defile, pollute
    Synonyms: polluō, inquinō, scelerō, contingō
    Antonyms: tergeō, abstergeō, pūrgō, luō, putō, effingō
  3. (figuratively) to dishonor

Conjugation

Descendants

Through Vulgar Latin *maclāre, *manclāre:

  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Italian: macchiare
    • Sicilian: macchiari
    • Venetan: maciar
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • ? Vulgar Latin: *maccare (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

References

  • maculo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • maculo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • maculo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to sully one's fair fame: vitae splendori(em) maculas(is) aspergere

Portuguese

Verb

maculo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of macular

Spanish

Verb

maculo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of macular