The corpus record — Latin

macer

macer · adj

lean, meagre

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Where it lives

Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 2 · 5.64/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 4 · 2.38/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Epigrammata 12 · 2.13/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 14 · 1.78/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Historiae 8 · 1.55/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. măcer — Lewis & Short

măcer, cra, crum, adj.Sanscr. root mak, to crush; Gr. ma/ssw, knead; mageu/s, baker; Germ. mager,

I lean, meagre.

A Lit., of living beings (most freq. of animals): taurus, opp. pinguis, Verg. E. 3, 100: boves, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 12; Juv. 14, 146: turdi, Hor. S. 1, 5, 72: mustela, id. Ep. 1, 7, 33: ostreae inuberes et macrae, Gell. 20, 8; Quint. 6, 3, 58.—Of parts of the body: in macerrimis corporis partibus, Sen. Ep. 78, 8.—Humorously of a person: valeat res ludicra si me Palma negata macrum donata reducit opimum, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 181: nec pharetris Veneris macer est, Juv. 6, 138.—

B Of inanimate things, thin, poor, barren: solum exile et macrum, * Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 67: ager macrior, Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 2: macerrimi agri, Col. 11, 2, 7: stirpes, id. 3, 10, 3: vineae, id. 8, 1, 2: libellus, meagre, thin, Mart. 2, 6, 10: ut dignus venias hederis et imagine macra, Juv. 7, 29.

2. Măcer — Lewis & Short

Măcer, cri, m.,

I a Roman surname.

1 C. Licinius Macer, an historian, Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 7; id. Brut. 67, 238; Liv. 4, 7, 12. —

2 Aemilius Macer, a poet and a friend of Virgil and Ovid, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 44; v. Aemilius.

In the wild

macrum Horace, Epistulae 2.1.181
macro Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.5
macer Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.9.5
Macer Historia Augusta, Severus 1
Macer Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.16.6
Macer Ovid, Tristia 4.10.44

6 of 119 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. macer (scan p. 399; entry #6339).

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