macies

English

Noun

macies (plurale tantum)

  1. (archaic, medicine) Emaciation; atrophy.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From macer (“meager or poor”) +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

Noun

maciēs f (genitive maciēī); fifth declension

  1. leanness, thinness, meagerness
  2. poverty

Inflection

Fifth declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative maciēs maciēs
genitive maciēī maciērum
dative maciēī maciēbus
accusative maciem maciēs
ablative maciē maciēbus
vocative maciēs maciēs

Derived terms

References

  • macies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • macies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • macies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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