marceo
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- marciō (late)
Etymology edit
Unknown. See also murcus, ἀμόργη (amórgē), and Lithuanian markýti (“to macerate, to ret”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmar.ke.oː/, [ˈmärkeoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmar.t͡ʃe.o/, [ˈmärt͡ʃeo]
Verb edit
marceō (present infinitive marcēre, perfect active marcuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to wither, droop, shrink, shrivel
- 64, Seneca, De Providentia:
- Marcet sine adversario virtus.
- Valour without an adversary withers.
- to be faint, weak, lazy or languid
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Reflexes of the late variant marcīre:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
References edit
- “marceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “marceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- marceo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “marceo”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, pages 386–387