macer

• Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)

From Middle English macer, from Anglo-Norman macer, from mace (“mace”).

macer (plural macers)

1. A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. [from 14th c.]

   Synonym: mace-bearer

macer (plural macers)

1. (slang) A cardsharp.
   • 1981, John E. Gardner, The Return of Moriarty, page 7:

     Indeed, Moran was a profession cheat, a sharper of more than ordinary dimensions — a macer, in criminal parlance. He had made card sharping a life's work — second only to shooting […]

• Carme, McRae, crame, cream, crema, recam

From maça +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈse]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maˈseɾ]

macer m (plural macers, feminine macera, feminine plural maceres)

1. mace-bearer

• “macer”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Proto-Italic *makros, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós, from *meh₂ḱ- (“to increase”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós), Old English mæġer (though English meager is from the Latin via French).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.kɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.t͡ʃer]

macer (feminine macra, neuter macrum, comparative macrior, superlative macerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. (of living things) lean, skinny, meager
2. (of inanimate things) thin, poor

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• “macer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “macer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• macer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “macer”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 793: “maigre” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 185: “magro; magri” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• “maigre” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

From Anglo-Norman macer; equivalent to mace (“mace”) +‎ -er (“agentive suffix”).

• macere, maceere, maser

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːsər/, /maːˈsɛːr/

macer (plural macers)

1. A macer; a mace-bearer (official)
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:

     Meires and maceres · that menes ben bitwene / Þe kynge and þe comune.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• English: macer
• Scots: macer

• “mācē̆re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 April 2018.

From Old English *maser.

macer

1. alternative form of maser