macero

macero

1. first-person singular present indicative of macerar

macero (plural maceri)

1. maceration, digestion

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ʃe.ro/
• Rhymes: -atʃero
• Hyphenation: mà‧ce‧ro

Endingless past participle of macerare.

macero (feminine macera, masculine plural maceri, feminine plural macere)

1. soaked, steeped, macerated
2. beaten, bruised

Deverbal from macerare +‎ -o.

macero m (plural maceri)

1. maceration
2. pulping (of old books, etc.)

   carta da macero (figurative, pejorative) ― pulp (book or magazine)

3. vessel used for macerating

   Synonym: maceratoio

macero

1. first-person singular present indicative of macerare

• Morace, acrome, camero, camerò, com'era, comare, corame, racemo

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱeseh₂ti, from *meh₂ǵ-, *meh₂ḱ- (“to knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō, “knead”), Lithuanian makonė, Old Church Slavonic мокръ (mokrŭ, “wet”), Russian мочи́ть (močítʹ, “to wet”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ke.roː/, [ˈmäːkɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ʃe.ro/, [ˈmäːt͡ʃero]

mācerō (present infinitive mācerāre, perfect active mācerāvī, supine mācerātum); first conjugation

1. to soften, make tender by soaking or steeping
2. to weaken, waste away
3. (figuratively) to vex, torment, distress
   • Livius Andronicus, Odusia 8:

     namque nūllum peiius / mācerat hūmānum
     quamde mare saevom.

     For nought vexes man worse than the raging sea.

4. (Medieval Latin) to mortify (discipline, chastise, or subject to severe privation for the atonement of sins)
5. (Medieval Latin) to torture

• mācerātiō
• mācerēscō
• māceria

Inherited:

• Catalan: maurar
• Old French: mairier
  • Middle French: mairer
    • French: mairer (regional, rare)
• Italian: macerare
• Old Galician-Portuguese: macerar
  • Galician: macerar
  • Portuguese: macerar

Borrowed:

• → Catalan: macerar
• → English: macerate
• → Franco-Provençal: macèrar
• → French: macérer
• → Occitan: macerar
• → Spanish: macerar

• “mācĕro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “macero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mācĕro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 934/1.
• “mācerō” on page 1,057/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “macerare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 623/2

macero

1. first-person singular present indicative of macerar

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /maˈθeɾo/ [maˈθe.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /maˈseɾo/ [maˈse.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: ma‧ce‧ro

From maza +‎ -ero.

macero m (plural maceros, feminine macera, feminine plural maceras)

1. mace-bearer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

macero

1. first-person singular present indicative of macerar

• “macero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28