1. maccis
maccis, ĭdis, f.,
I a fictitious spice, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 43 (al. macis).
The corpus record — Latin
maccis
maccis · f
a fictitious spice
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
What it meant — Lewis & Short
2. maccis
maccis, -idis (f.) „ein erdichtetes Gewürz“ (Plaut. Pseud. 832): er fundenes Wort wie nebenstehendes saucaptis (von maccus?, Festschr. Kretschmer70; jedenfalls nicht nach Weise 452, Saalfeld 641, Schrader RL. If? 85 als , Muskatblüte" aus angebl. gr. *uaxkic [nacir Plin. aus gr. udiip „Harz der Ailanthus malabarica^ hat damit nichts zu tun]). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. maccis, p. 907]
In the wild
- maccidem Plautus, Pseudolus 3.2
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. maccis (scan p. 399; entry #6327).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. maccis (scan p. 907; entry #1643).
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