maccis

Latin

Etymology 1

Compare macir. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

maccis f (genitive maccidis); third declension (hapax legomenon)

  1. (hapax legomenon) a bogus spice
    • c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 830–832:
      nam egó cocilendrum quando in patinas indidi
      aut cepolendrum aut maccidem aut secaptidem,
      eaepse sese [patinae] fervefaciunt ilico.
      For when I’ve put cocilendrum into the skillets
      or cepolendrum or maccis or secaptis,
      these skillets become hot in an instant.
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative maccis maccidēs
genitive maccidis maccidum
dative maccidī maccidibus
accusative maccidem maccidēs
ablative maccide maccidibus
vocative maccis maccidēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

maccīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of maccus

References

  • “maccis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • maccis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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