# macer
## English
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

macer (plural macers)
* A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. [from 14th c.]
    Synonym: mace-bearer

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

macer (plural macers)
* (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 […]

### Anagrams

* Carme, McRae, crame, cream, crema, recam

## Catalan
### Etymology

From maça +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [məˈse]
* IPA: (Valencia) [maˈseɾ]

### Noun

macer m (plural macers, feminine macera)
* mace-bearer

### Further reading

* “macer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Latin
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈma.ker/, [ˈmäkɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.t͡ʃer/, [ˈmäːt͡ʃer]

### Adjective

macer (feminine macra, neuter macrum, comparative macrior, superlative macerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
* (of living things) lean, skinny, meager
* (of inanimate things) thin, poor

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

* commacerō
* ēmacerātus
* ēmacerō
* ēmacrēscō
* macellus
* macrēscō
* macriculus
* macritās
* macritūdō
* permacer
* remacrēscō

#### Related terms

* ēmacēscō
* ēmaciō
* maceō
* macēscō
* maciēs
* macilentus
* maciō
* macor
* permaceō

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: macru
** Romanian: macru
* Dalmatian:
** muogro
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: magro
** Neapolitan: magro, macro
** Sicilian: màguru
** Tuscan: màghero
* North Italian:
** Emilian: mègar, mègre
** Friulian: magri
** Ligurian: magru
** Lombard: màgher
** Piedmontese: maire, mair, mèir, mèr, màgher
** Romagnol: mègar, mègre
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: mégro, méro
    Valdôtain: mairo, maigro, mèro
** Oïl:
*** Bourbonnais-Berrichon: maigre, maigue
*** Bourguignon: moigre
*** Franc-Comtois: magre, maigre
*** Lorrain: maigue, maique, maque, magre
*** Norman: maigre, maigue
*** Old French: megre, meigre
**** French: maigre
***** → Pinji: maigue, maigre
**** → English: meager, meagre (Commonwealth), meagre
***** Jamaican Creole: mawga
***** Jamaican Creole: mawga
**** French: maigre
***** → Pinji: maigue, maigre
**** Norman: maigre
**** Walloon: maigue, maique, muére, mére
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: magre
** Occitan: magre (western dialects)
    Auvergnat: maigre, muegre
    Provençal: maigre
    Vivaro-Alpine: maigre
* Ibero-Romance:
** Mirandese: magro
** Old Galician-Portuguese: magro
*** Galician: magro
*** Portuguese: magro
** Spanish: magro

### References

* “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 [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.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* macere, maceere, maser

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaːsər/, /maːˈsɛːr/

#### Noun

macer (plural macers)
* 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)

##### Descendants

* English: macer
* Scots: macer

##### References

* “mācē̆re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.

### Etymology 2

From Old English *maser.

#### Noun

macer
* Alternative form of maser