The corpus record — Latin

macresco

to grow lean, meagre

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Where it lives

Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

mā^cresco — Lewis & Short

mā^cresco, crŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [1. macer], to grow lean, meagre: algor eas et famis macrescere cogit, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 15; 3, 5, 3: macrescit pecus, Col. 6, 3, 1: macrescunt animalia, Veg. Vet. 1, 7, 2: invidus alterius macrescit rebus opimis, grows thin at, pines away at, * Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 57: curionem agnum Plautus pro macro dixit, quasi cura macruisset, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. curionem, p. 60 Müll.

In the wild

macrescat Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.3.1
macrescit Horace, Epistulae 1.2.57
macrescat Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.1.6
macresceret Martial, Epigrammata 13.63.1

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.