macir
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin macir; doublet of mace.
Noun[edit]
macir (uncountable)
- (historical) A spicy red bark from India, imported to the Roman Empire in the first century CE, possibly the fragrant resin of Ailanthus triphysa
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek μάκιρ (mákir).
Noun[edit]
macir ? (indeclinable)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: macir (learned)
(From the Medieval Latin macis:)
- → Old French: macis
- → Galician: macis
- → German: Macis
- → Italian: macis
- → Portuguese: macis
- → Russian: ма́цис (mácis)
- → Serbo-Croatian: macis
- → Spanish: macis
- → Ukrainian: ма́цис (mácys)
References[edit]
- “macir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- macir in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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