Etymograph

English

macir

Macir comes from Latin macir ‘a kind of red spicy bark brought from India’, and goes back to Ancient Greek μάκιρ ‘macir, the fragrant resin of Ailanthus triphysa’.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμάκιρmákir‘macir, the fragrant resin of Ailanthus triphysa’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmacir‘a kind of red spicy bark brought from India’
  3. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμάκιρmákir‘macir, the fragrant resin of Ailanthus triphysa’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmacir‘a kind of red spicy bark brought from India’
  3. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Latin macir ‘a kind of red spicy bark brought from India’

mace

Today it means

noun A spicy red bark from India, imported to the Roman Empire in the first century CE, possibly the fragrant resin of Ailanthus triphysa

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ancient Greek μάκιρ / macir

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