The corpus record — Latin

macritudo

macritudo · f

leanness, thinness, meagreness

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Where it lives

Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k

What it meant

mā^crĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

mā^crĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.id.,

I leanness, thinness, meagreness (for macies): ossa atque pellis sum, miser macritudine, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 26 Weise (1, 2, 32 Brix and Fleck., who read aegritudine; acc. to Non. 136, 2).

In the wild

macritudine Plautus, Captivi 1.2

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.