marceo

• marciō (late)

De Vaan derives the verb from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥k-eh₁-, from a root *merk- (“to be soaked; to be weak”), and compares Hittite [script needed] (markii̯e/a-, “to disapprove of, refuse”), Sanskrit मृच् (mṛc, “to injure”), Lithuanian mer̃kti (“to soak”), Middle High German meren (“to dip bread into water or wine”).^[1]

The proposed connections with murcus, ἀμόργη (amórgē), Proto-Celtic *mrakis (“malt”) and Lithuanian markýti (“to macerate, to ret”) are problematic for various reasons.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmar.ke.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmar.t͡ʃe.o]

marceō (present infinitive marcēre, perfect active marcuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to wither, droop, shrink, shrivel
   • 64, Seneca, De Providentia:

     Marcet sine adversario virtus.

     Valour without an adversary withers.

2. to be faint, weak, lazy or languid

• marcidulus
• marculentus

Reflexes of the late variant marcīre:

• “marceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “marceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• marceo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “marceo”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, pages 386–387