Ido

Noun

macero (plural maceri)

1. maceration, digestion

Italian

Adjective

macero m ‎(feminine singular macera, masculine plural maceri, feminine plural macere)

1. soaked, steeped, macerated
2. beaten, bruised

Verb

macero

1. First-person singular present tense of macerare

Anagrams

• acrome
• comare
• com'era
• corame
• racemo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ-. Compare the Ancient Greek μάσσω ‎(mássō, “knead”), the Lithuanian makonė, the Old Church Slavonic мокр ‎(mokr, “wet”), and the Russian мочи́ть ‎(močítʹ, “to wet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ke.roː/

Verb

mācerō ‎(present infinitive mācerāre, perfect active mācerāvī, supine mācerātum); first conjugation

1. I soften, make tender by soaking or steeping
2. I weaken, waste away
3. (figuratively) I vex, torment, distress
4. (Medieval Latin) I mortify (discipline, chastise, or subject to severe privation for the atonement of sins)
5. (Medieval Latin) I torture

Conjugation

Derived terms

• mācerātiō
• mācerēscō
• māceria

Descendants

• English: macerate
• French: macérer
• Italian: macerare
• Spanish: macerar

References

• mācĕro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• macero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mācĕro”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 934/1.
• “mācerō” on page 1,057/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “macerare” on page 623/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)

Portuguese

Verb

macero

1. first-person singular present indicative of macerar

Spanish

Verb

macero

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of macerar.