The corpus record — Latin

maco

maco · v. a

to maul, beat, hack

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

Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

măco, ĕre, 3, v. a.cf. macellum,

I to maul, beat, hack: namque nullum Pejus macit homonem quamde mare saevum, Naev. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 397 Müll. ad loc.: ut nunc saepe boves lucae ferro male mactae Diffugiunt, Lucr. 5, 1339 Munro ad loc.

In the wild

maco Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.14.1

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.