The corpus record — Latin

maestĭfĭco

maestĭfĭco · v. a

to make sad

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What it meant

maestĭfĭco — Lewis & Short

maestĭfĭco (moest-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.maestus-facio,

I to make sad or sorrowful, to sadden (post-class.): si paupertas angit, si luctus maestificat, Aug. Ep. 121: facies umbris maestificata larvalibus, Sid. Ep. 3, 13 med.; Mart. Cap. 9, § 888.

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.