like μάκαρ III, one blessed, i.e. dead, esp. of one lately dead, A. Pers. 633 (lyr.), Ar. Fr. 488.10, Men. 1032, PCair.Zen. 447.1 (iii B.C.): freq. in late writers, Plu. Cons.Apoll. 2.120b, Ath. 3.113e; ὁ μ. σου πατήρ your late father, Luc. DMeretr. 6.1, etc.:—fem. μᾰκᾰρ-ῖτις, ιδος, Theoc. 2.70, Herod. 6.55; ἡ μ. μου γυνή Luc. Philops. 27.
as Adj., μ. βίος, with a play on 1, Ar. Pl. 555.