different between atrophy vs macies

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ??????? (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ????? (troph?, “nourishment”), from ????? (tréph?, “I fatten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.t??.fi/

Noun

atrophy (countable and uncountable, plural atrophies)

1. (pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use. [from early 17th c.]

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Verb

atrophy (third-person singular simple present atrophies, present participle atrophying, simple past and past participle atrophied)

1. (intransitive) To wither or waste away. [from early 18th c.]
2. (transitive) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

Antonyms

• hypertrophy
• strengthen

Translations

See also

• -trophy
• hypotrophy

Further reading

• atrophy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

macies

1. (archaic, medicine) Emaciation; atrophy.

Anagrams

• amices, asemic, camise

Latin

Etymology

From macer (“meager or poor”) +? -i?s.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.ki.e?s/, [?mäkie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.t??i.es/, [?m??t??i?s]

Noun

maci?s f (genitive maci??); fifth declension

1. leanness, thinness, meagerness
2. poverty

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• macilentus
• emacio

References

• macies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• macies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• macies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette