The corpus record — Latin

marcor

marcor · m

a withering

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Where it lives

De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

marcor — Lewis & Short

marcor, ōris, m.marceo,

I a withering: segetum, Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 4.—Hence, Transf.

I Decay, rottenness (not anteAug.): panni marcor, a rotten rag, Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 94.—

II Faintness, languor, indolence: marcor, et inexpugnabilis dormiendi necessitas, Cels. 3, 20: cernitis expositas turpi marcore cohortes, i. e. somno, Stat. Th. 10, 269: maeror marcorque, melancholy, Sen. Tranq. 2, 8: ducis, indolence, worthlessness, Vell. 2, 119, 2.

In the wild

marcorque Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 9.2.10
marcor Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 17_18.104.6
marcore Statius, Thebais 10.269
marcor Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.22.p16
marcore Statius, Thebais 8.265
marcor Celsus, De Medicina 3.20.p1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. marcor (scan p. 410; entry #6553).

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