Macula

Use as a masculine proper noun of the feminine common noun macula (“a disfiguring spot, stain, or blemish on the skin”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.kʊ.ɫa]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.ku.la]

Macula m sg (genitive Maculae); first declension

1. a Roman cognomen

   Quintus Pompeius Macula

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cicero to this entry?)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Măcŭla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Măcŭla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 935/2.