The corpus record — Latin

maceo

maceo · v. n

to be lean, meagre

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Where it lives

Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

măcĕo — Lewis & Short

măcĕo, ēre, v. n.1. macer,

I to be lean, meagre: quia ossa atque pellis totust: ita cura macet, Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 28; cf. Non. 509, 11.

In the wild

Macesque Silius Italicus, Punica 9.222
macet Plautus, Aulularia 3.6
Maces Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.10
Maces Silius Italicus, Punica 5.194
Macen Silius Italicus, Punica 2.60

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.