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marceo

to be withered, droop

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
De Vita Beata 2 · 2.75/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. marceo — de Vaan

marceo 'to be withered, droop' [v. II] (Lucr.+) Derivatives: marcescere 'to wither' (Varro+); permarcere 'to be very weak' (Enn.+); murcidus 'lazy' (Pompon,), muricidus *faint-hearted' (P1.+). Pit. *mark-e- [v.], *morko- [adj.]. PIE *mrk-ehr 4to be soaked, be weak', *mork-o- 'weak'. IE cognates: Hit. markiie/a-zl 'to disapprove of> refuse' < *mrk-ie/o-'9 Skt, pn pra-mrcyatU caus. marcayati, aor. mfksfsta 'to damage, … — [de Vaan, s.v. marceo, p. 378]

2. marcĕo — Lewis & Short

marcĕo, ēre, v. n.Sanscr. root mar, die; Gr. marai/nw, marasmo/s; cf. also morbus, morior,

I to wither, droop, shrink, shrivel

I Lit. (poet.): marcebant coronae, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 244: silva comis, Stat. S. 5, 5, 29.—

II Transf., to be faint, weak, drooping, feeble, languid, lazy (not in Cic. or Cæs.): annis corpus jam marcet, Lucr. 3, 946: marcent luxuria, vino, et epulis per totam hiemem confecti, Liv. 23, 45: otio ac desidia corrupti marcebant, Just. 30, 1: pavore, Curt. 4, 13, 18; Vell. 2, 84: si marcet animus, si corpus torpet, Cels. 2, 2: amor, Claud. Laud. Seren. 226: juventa, Nemes. Ecl. 1, 60.—Hence, marcens, entis, P. a., withering, drooping, feeble, wasted away, exhausted, weak, languid, indolent (mostly poet.).

A Lit.: marcentes coronae, Claud. Epithal. Pall. et Celer. 96: marcentes tibi porrigentur uvae, Mart. 5, 78, 12: bracchia marcentia vino, Col. 10, 428.—

B Transf.: colla, Stat. Th. 2, 630: guttura, Ov. M. 7, 314: senex marcentibus annis, Sil. 15, 746: visus, Sen. Agam. 788: stomachus, Suet. Calig. 58: terga, Mart. Cap. 6, § 704.—Absol.: tostis marcentem squillis recreabis, Hor. S. 2, 4, 58: Vitellius deses et marcens, Tac. H. 3, 36: pocula, i. e. enfeebling, Stat. S. 4, 6, 56: pax, Tac. G. 36: flamma cupiditatis, Mam. Grat. Act. ad Julian. 17.

In the wild

marcentis Persius, Saturae 4.36
marcent Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.114.23
marcet Ovid, Amores 1.13.41
marcet Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.7.4
marcens Petronius, Satyricon 128
marcet Celsus, De Medicina 2.2

6 of 66 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. marceo (scan pp. 378-379; entry #1002). Root candidates: *morko-, *mrekrjo-, *mork-.

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