Ancient Greek

Adjective

μᾰκρός • ‎(makrós) m ‎(feminine μᾰκρᾱ́, neuter μᾰκρόν); first/second declension

1. long
2. tall, deep
3. far, distant
4. (time) long
5. (grammar, of vowels) long

Inflection

Antonyms

• (long): βραχύς ‎(brakhús)

Derived terms

Related terms

• μῆκος ‎(mêkos, “length”)

Descendants

• English: macro-, macron (via μακρόν ‎(makrón))
• Latin: macrochaeta

References

• μακρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μακρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μακρός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μακρός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «μακρός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μακρός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3117”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ample idem, page 28.
  • big idem, page 78.
  • capacious idem, page 111.
  • circuitous idem, page 132.
  • commodious idem, page 148.
  • distant idem, page 240.
  • extensive idem, page 296.
  • far idem, page 306.
  • great idem, page 372.
  • lank idem, page 476.
  • large idem, page 476.
  • lengthy idem, page 485.
  • lingering idem, page 493.
  • livelong idem, page 496.
  • long idem, page 498.
  • long-winded idem, page 498.
  • palatial idem, page 589.
  • prolix idem, page 653.
  • prolong idem, page 653.
  • remote idem, page 694.
  • roundabout idem, page 723.
  • spacious idem, page 797.
  • tedious idem, page 859.
  • verbose idem, page 948.
  • voluminous idem, page 956.
  • windy idem, page 981.
  • wordy idem, page 988.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill