marcor

marcor

English

Noun

marcor (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) A wasting or withering disease; marasmus.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin marceō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin marcor

    From marceō (“to wither”) + -or.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    marcor m (genitive marcōris); third declension

    1. a withering
    2. decay, rottenness
    3. faintness, feebleness, apathy
      Synonym: languor

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative marcor marcōrēs
    genitive marcōris marcōrum
    dative marcōrī marcōribus
    accusative marcōrem marcōrēs
    ablative marcōre marcōribus
    vocative marcor marcōrēs

    Descendants

    • → English: marcor

    References

    • “marcor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “marcor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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