The corpus record — Latin

macilentus

macilentus · adj

lean, thin, meagre

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

What it meant

măcĭlentus — Lewis & Short

măcĭlentus, a, um, adj.macies,

I lean, thin, meagre (ante- and post-class.): macilento ore, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 114: macilentis malis, id. As. 2, 3, 20: macilenti, macie tenuati, Paul. ex Fest. p. 125 Müll.: solum, poor, barren, Pall. Mart. 10, 1.—Comp.: macilentiores vultus, Vulg. Dan. 1, 10: macilentior equus, Pelagon. Vet. 13.

In the wild

macilento Plautus, Captivi 3.4
Macilentis Plautus, Asinaria 2.3
macilentam Apuleius, Apologia 63

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.