macir
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin macir; doublet of mace.
Noun
macir (uncountable)
- (historical) A spicy red bark from India, imported to the Roman Empire in the first century CE, possibly the fragrant resin of Ailanthus triphysa
Anagrams
- Ramic, Rimac, cimar
Latin
Alternative forms
- macis (medieval)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μάκιρ (mákir).
Noun
macir ? (indeclinable)
- (hapax) a kind of red spicy bark brought from India
Descendants
- → English: macir (learned)
(From the Medieval Latin macis:)
- → Old French: macis
- Middle French: macis
- → Middle English: macys, maas, mace, maces, macez, macz, mases, masis, masys, mauce
- English: mace
- → Japanese: メース (meisu)
- → Maori: meihi
- English: mace
- French: macis
- → Greek: μασίς (masís)
- → Middle English: macys, maas, mace, maces, macez, macz, mases, masis, masys, mauce
- Middle French: macis
- → Galician: macis
- → German: Macis
- → Italian: macis
- → Portuguese: macis
- → Russian: ма́цис (mácis)
- → Serbo-Croatian: macis
- → Spanish: macis
- → Ukrainian: ма́цис (mácys)
References
- “macir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- macir in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette