maco
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of maco
After Mako Bey, 19th-century Egyptian officer
Example Sentences
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He takes mactus as the participle of a lost verb maco or mago, to make great, increase, equivalent to augeo, which is also a word of semi-religious meaning, as Augustus knew.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
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