macir

English

Etymology

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Ancient Greek μάκιρ (mákir)bor.

Latin macirlbor.

English macir

Learned borrowing from Latin macir; doublet of mace.

Noun

macir (uncountable)

1. (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

• Rimac, Marci, cimar, Ramic, Mirac, Carmi

Latin

Alternative forms

• macis (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μάκιρ (mákir).

Noun

macir ? (indeclinable)

1. (hapax legomenon) 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)
        • → Korean: 메이스 (meiseu)
        • → Māori: meihi
        • → Welsh: mês
    • French: macis
      • → Greek: μασίς (masís)
• → 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.