different between mazer vs macer

English

Alternative forms

• maser

Etymology

From Middle English maser, mazer, masere, from Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre (“a kind of maple wood”), in turn from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser (“spot”)), Icelandic mösurr (“maple”).

It has been suggested that the English word might instead come from Old English *mæser, *maser (suggested by a putative derivative mæseren), but the evidence for this is slight and disputed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?z?/
• Rhymes: -e?z?(?)

Noun

mazer (countable and uncountable, plural mazers)

1. (obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.
2. (archaic or historical) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16:

     Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer, treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me

Derived terms

• mazer bowl

Anagrams

• Marez, Meraz, Zerma

References

Middle English

Noun

mazer

1. Alternative form of maser

Old French

Alternative forms

• mazre, maser, mazar, madre

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *masur (“maple”).

Noun

mazer m (oblique plural mazers, nominative singular mazers, nominative plural mazer)

1. maple
2. large drinking bowl made maple; mazer bowl

Descendants

• Middle French: madré
  • French: madré
• ? English: maser, masere, mazer, mazar
  • English: mazer (obsolete, archaic)
• ? Old French: mazerin, mazelin, madelin, maderin
  • Middle French: mazerin, mazarin, madre
    • French: mazerin, mazarin, madre
  • ? English: maselin, maseline, maselyn
  • ? English: mazerin, mazarin
    • English: mazerin
  • ? Medieval Latin: mazerinus, maserinus, mazelinus, maderinus

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?s?(?)

Noun

macer (plural macers)

1. A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. [from 14th c.]

   Synonym: mace-bearer

Anagrams

• Carme, McRae, crame, cream, crema, recam

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *makros, from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós, from *meh??- (“to increase”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (makrós), Old English mæ?er (though English meager is from the Latin via French).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.ker/, [?mäk?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.t??er/, [?m??t???r]

Adjective

macer (feminine macra, neuter macrum, comparative macrior, superlative macrissimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. (of living things) lean, skinny, meager
2. (of inanimate things) thin, poor

Declension

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• macere, maceere, maser

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?s?r/, /ma??s??r/

Noun

macer (plural macers)

1. A macer; a mace-bearer (official)
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     Meires and maceres · that menes ben bitwene / Þe kynge and þe comune.

Descendants

• English: macer
• Scots: macer

References

• “m?c??re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.

Etymology 2

From Old English *maser.

Noun

macer

1. Alternative form of maser