macies Latin · revision 32110

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *mh₂ḱ-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈma.ki.eːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈmaː.t͡ʃi.es]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''maciēs''' ''f'' (genitive maciēī); fifth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is related to [[m|la|macer|t=lean, thin]] and [[m|la|maceō|t=to be thin]], with the suffix [[m|la|-iēs]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|macer]] to [[itc-pro|*makro-|t=long, lean]] and [[ine-pro|*mh₂ḱ-ro-|t=long]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|μακρός|tr=makrós|t=long]], [[hit|maklant-|t=thin, meagre]] and [[sga|do·formaig|t=to add, increase]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Lucretius;^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) the OLD quotes an early tragedy of unknown authorship in which a body wastes away with leanness.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means thinness of body, leanness or wasting, as Cicero asks with what weakness and what thinness the consul Hirtius set out to war.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace personifies it: Wasting and a new troop of fevers fell upon the earth.^(OLD 2012) Of soil it means poverty or thinness, as in Ovid, and of style meagreness: Quintilian complains that some teachers take thinness for health.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it emaciation, thinness, poverty.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a consul's thinness.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace personifies wasting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of poor soil.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of meagre style.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Thinness of body, [[m|en|leanness]], wasting, [[m|en|emaciation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of soil, poverty, thinness.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of style, meagreness.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[maciō]]

+ * [[macilentus]]

+ * [[ēmaciō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[maceō]]

+ * [[macer]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}