macte

== Latin == === Etymology === Normally the vocative masculine singular form of mactus, the adjective became frozen and a quasi-interjection. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmak.tɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmak.te] === Adjective === macte vocative masculine singular of mactus === Adjective === macte (indeclinable) (addressed to deities, macte estō with abl.) be blessed (with) (addressed to people, macte virtūte (estō)) be blessed for your courage, well done (macte (estō) with abl. or rarely gen. or acc.) be blessed (for), hurray (for) (quasi-interjection) bravo, well done === References === “macte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “macte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "macte", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “macte”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.