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mactus

mactus

honoured; smitten

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Where it lives

  • De agri cultura 11 · 7.03/10k
  • Silvae 10 · 3.99/10k
  • Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
  • Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 2 · 1.51/10k
  • de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
  • De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
  • Punica 7 · 0.92/10k
  • Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
  • Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
  • Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
  • Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 1 · 0.66/10k
  • Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mactus — de Vaan

mactus 'honoured; smitten' [adj. o/a] (Cato+) j Derivatives: made [indech] 'honoured, blessed, bravo' (Cato+); mactare 'to afflict, honour, sacrifice, kill' (PL+), mactabilis 'able to kill' (Lucr.), mactatus, -lis 'sacrificial slaying' (Lucr); magmentum 'part of a sacrificial animal' (Varro+), — [de Vaan, s.v. mactus, p. 371]

2. mactus — Lewis & Short

mactus, a, um, adj.root mak, in ma/kar, blessed; cf. makro/s.

I In relig. lang., of the gods, glorified, worshipped, honored, adored (only in the voc. macte, and rarely in the nom.): Juppiter te bonas preces precor, uti sies volens propitius mihi liberisque meis, mactus hoc fercto. Jove pater, macte vino inferio esto, Cato, R. R. 134, 2 and 3; cf. id. ib. 132, 2; for which: mactus hoc vino inferio esto, Arn. 7, 296: macte hoc porco piaculo immolando esto, Cato, R. R. 139 fin.: macte hisce suovitaurilibus lactentibus immolandis esto, id. ib. 141, 3 sq.: macte hac dape esto, id. ib. 132.—
II Transf., beyond the relig. sphere, with or without esto, as an exclamation of applause or congratulation: macte, macte virtute (esto), macti virtute este, etc.; and as a standing formula, macte, even with acc. (v. infra), Engl. good luck! hail to thee! etc.; in responses, bravo! well done! that's right! go on! tantumne ab re tua est oti tibi, ut etiam Oratorem legas? Macte virtute! increase in, go on in, Cic. Att. 12, 6, 2; id. Tusc. 1, 17, 40: macte virtute esto sanguinolentis et ex acie redeuntibus dicitur, Sen. Ep. 66 fin.: macte virtute esto, Hor. S. 1, 2, 31: macte novā virtute, puer; sic itur ad astra! Verg. A. 9, 641: macte virtute diligentiāque esto, Liv. 10, 40: macte virtute simulque his versibus esto, Lucil. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 641: macte animo, Stat. Th. 7, 280; cf.: macte bonis animi, id. S. 1, 3, 106: macte toris, id. ib. 1, 2, 201: macte hac gloriā, Plin. Pan. 46: macte uterque ingenti in rempublicam merito, id. ib. 89: macte esto taedis, o Hymenaee, tuis, Mart. 4, 13, 2.—In plur.: macti virtute milites Romani este, Liv. 7, 36, 5: macti ingenio este, Plin. 2, 12, 9, § 54: vos macti virtute estote, Curt. 4, 1, 18: juberem macte virtute esse, si pro meā patriā ista virtus staret, Liv. 2, 12, 14.—With acc.: macte fortissimam et meo judicio beatissimam in ipsis malis civitatem! Flor. 2, 18, 16.—
(b) With gen. (poet.): macte animi, Mart. 12, 6, 7; Stat. S. 5, 1, 37; id. Th. 2, 495.—With abl.: macte animo, juvenis, Stat. Th. 7, 280.—
(g) Absol.: Macte! that's right! well done! good! Cic. Att. 15, 29 fin.

3. mactus — Lewis & Short

mactus, a, um, P. a. of maco, q. v., and cf. macto

I fin.

4. mactus — Walde–Hofmann

mactus, -z, -wm. (fast nur Vok. macte) „gepriesen, gefeiert, durch Gabe geehrt“ (zunächst in der Sakralsprache seit Cato in der Vbdg. macte |dape, vinö usw.) esto) ; als Glückwunsch „heil dir! Glück auf!* (seit Pacuv., auf eine Mehrheit bezüglich seit Cic. bzw. Liv., absolut und mit Inf. bzw. quod seit Val. Fl. und Stat.; s. Wünsch Rh. M. 69, 127ff., Schmalz* 405 [verfehlt Birt Rh. M. 77, 199f.]): nach Osthoff MU. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. mactus, p. 910]

In the wild

6 of 65 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. mactus (scan p. 371; entry #976).
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mactus (scan p. 400; entry #6354).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. mactus (scan pp. 910-911; entry #1650). Root candidates: *mégh-, *mak-.

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