Maccius

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmak.ki.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmat.t͡ʃi.us]

Maccius m sg (genitive Macciī or Maccī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Titus Maccius Plautus, a Roman playwright

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Maccia

• “Maccius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Maccius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.