macir
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.