# macero
## Catalan
### Verb

macero
* first-person singular present indicative of macerar

## Ido
### Noun

macero (plural maceri)
* maceration, digestion

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.t͡ʃe.ro/
* Rhymes: -atʃero
* Hyphenation: mà‧ce‧ro

### Etymology 1

Endingless past participle of macerare.

#### Adjective

macero (feminine macera, masculine plural maceri, feminine plural macere)
* soaked, steeped, macerated
* beaten, bruised

### Etymology 2

Deverbal from macerare +‎ -o.

#### Noun

macero m (plural maceri)
* maceration
* pulping (of old books, etc.)
    carta da macero (figurative, pejorative) ― pulp (book or magazine)
* vessel used for macerating
    Synonym: maceratoio

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

macero
* first-person singular present indicative of macerare

### Anagrams

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

## Latin
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

mācerō (present infinitive mācerāre, perfect active mācerāvī, supine mācerātum); first conjugation
* to soften, make tender by soaking or steeping
* to weaken, waste away
* (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.
* (Medieval Latin) to mortify (discipline, chastise, or subject to severe privation for the atonement of sins)
* (Medieval Latin) to torture

#### Derived terms

* mācerātiō
* mācerēscō
* māceria

#### Descendants

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

### References

* “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

## Portuguese
### Verb

macero
* first-person singular present indicative of macerar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

From maza +‎ -ero.

#### Noun

macero m (plural maceros, feminine macera, feminine plural maceras)
* mace-bearer

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

macero
* first-person singular present indicative of macerar

### Further reading

* “macero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014