mactus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *maktos, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱtós, from *meh₂ḱ- (“to increase”). Cognate with macer.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmak.tus/, [ˈmäkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmak.tus/, [ˈmäkt̪us]
Adjective
[edit]mactus (feminine macta, neuter mactum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mactus | macta | mactum | mactī | mactae | macta | |
| Genitive | mactī | mactae | mactī | mactōrum | mactārum | mactōrum | |
| Dative | mactō | mactō | mactīs | ||||
| Accusative | mactum | mactam | mactum | mactōs | mactās | macta | |
| Ablative | mactō | mactā | mactō | mactīs | |||
| Vocative | macte | macta | mactum | mactī | mactae | macta | |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “mactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mactus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- mactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) good luck to you: macte virtute (esto or te esse iubeo)
- (ambiguous) good luck to you: macte virtute (esto or te esse iubeo)