different between macies vs acies

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aci?s (“edge, sharpness”).

Noun

acies (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The full attention of one's sight, hearing or other senses, as directed towards a particular object.
   • 1658: And therefore providence hath arched and paved the great house of the world, with colours of mediocrity, that is, blew and green, above and below the sight, moderately terminating the acies of the eye. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 204)

Anagrams

• -icase, acise, saice

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp, pointed”).Cognate with Ancient Greek ???? (akís, “point, pointed object”), ??? (ak?, “point”) and Proto-Germanic *agj? (whence English edge).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. sharp edge or point
2. battle line
3. battle, engagement
4. (Late Latin) steel

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• acies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acies in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• acies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• acies in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acies in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin