Word origins

• LyceanEpithet of Apollo
• LyceusEpithet of Apollo
• LycoreaAn ancient settlement on Mount Parnassus, Greece
• LycoreusA son of Apollo.
• macerateTo soften (something) or separate it into pieces by (or as if by) soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
• machinateTo devise a plot or secret plan; to conspire.
• machinatorOne who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
• macrocollumA variety of paper in Ancient Rome, measuring a foot and a half in width.
• mactateTo kill in sacrifice.
• madidWet; moist.
• magistraA woman with power or authority, such as a teacher or archmage; a mistress.
• Magna GraeciaThe ancient coastal regions of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers.
• MagnentianOf or relating to Magnentius (c. 303 – 353), Roman usurper.
• MagnentiusA Roman usurper
• magnificateTo magnify or extol.
• magniloquenceThe quality of being magniloquent
• magnum opusA great or important work of literature, music or art, a masterpiece.
• magnus annusA cycle of years that ends in a final death, conflagration, apocalypse, or the like, and the cycle begins again with a rebirth.
• MahometusA male given name from Latin [in turn from Arabic].
• majorateTo augment; to increase.
• majusculaecapital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier
• malaciaAbnormal softening of organs or tissues of the human body.
• mala fideIn bad faith.
• malafideIn bad faith.
• malagmaA cataplasm.
• malaxateto soften, especially by kneading with the hands
• malaxationThe act of softening a mass by malaxating.
• maledicentReproachful in speech.
• maledictaProfane or blasphemous language.
• malefactureAn act of doing evil; a criminal act; malefaction, maleficence.
• malignancemalignancy
• malo animoIll intent.
• malthaA thick mineral pitch.
• mamillaThe small projection of a mammary gland; a nipple.
• mammae erraticaeSupernumerary breasts.
• mammillaThe nipple.
• -mancyDivination.
• MandaeanOf or relating to Mandaeans.
• MandaicSynonym of Mandaean.
• mandaismAn idiom or other feature borrowed from Mandaic.
• manducateTo chew (something); to masticate.
• mangonizeTo make (something) appear more attractive or appealing.
• ManichaeusMani (founder of Manichaeism)
• ManichaicSynonym of Manichaean
• maniculeA symbol resembling a hand with the index finger extended, used to draw attention to or indicate something.
• mansuetetame; gentle
• -manticForms adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -mancy.
• manualiterOf organ music requiring the use of the manuals only.
• manuaryManual; involving (skills using) the hands.
• manubiaryPertaining to the spoils of war.
• manu militariWith military aid.
• manustuprationSynonym of masturbation.
• manutergiummanuterge
• mappa mundiA medieval European map of the world.
• marcidlean, withered.
• marginateWith a well marked edge or margin.
• mariscaA hemorrhoid.
• MarsicaA historical region of Italy, around Avezzano in Abruzzo
• marsupiumThe external pouch in which female marsupials rear and feed the young.
• MartyropolisA city on the Nymphius river in Sophanene, ancient Armenia, near the border with Arzanene, corresponding to modern Silvan, Turkey.
• masticateTo chew (usually food).
• mater dolorosaThe Virgin Mary represented as the sorrowing mother.
• materfamiliasThe female head of a household.
• matronaIn Ancient Rome, a wife of an honorable man.
• MatronaliaAn Ancient Roman festival on the first of March celebrating childbirth and mothers, similar to Mother's Day.
• maturantA medicine or application which promotes suppuration.
• maturateTo bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
• MaurusiaMauretania
• MausolusA ruler of Caria and satrap of the Achaemenid Empire, famous for being buried in the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
• MaxentiaMaxentia, mother of Vigilius of Trent
• MaxentianOf or relating to Maxentius (c. 278 – 312), Roman emperor.
• Media AtropatenaSynonym of Atropatian Media
• Media AtropateneSynonym of Atropatian Media
• Media MagnaSynonym of Great Media
• medulla spinalisSpinal cord.
• MelanchlaeniA Scythian tribe which dwelt in Pontus
• MelanippeA female given name, masculine equivalent Melanippus
• MelanippusA male given name, feminine equivalent Melanippe
• MeletiusA male given name.
• MeliteneFormer name of Malatya: a city in Turkey.
• mellifluentMellifluous.
• melligohoneydew (sweet sticky substance found on plants)
• membranuleA small membrane
• membrum virileThe penis.
• memento moriAn emblematic object or personal ornament, such as a skull, used as a reminder of one's mortality.
• memoria technicaSynonym of mnemotechny.
• memoriterBy, or from, memory; by heart.
• mendicateTo beg.
• MenevianOf or relating to a Cambrian lithostratigraphic group in west Wales.
• mensuralOf or pertaining to measure or measurement.
• mensurateTo measure absolutely the height, latitude and longitude of a point on the earth.
• mentrixA female mentor.
• mentulaA penis.
• meo moreAs is my wont (custom, habit).
• mercatorismThe tendency of transnational commerce to operate outside any system of national laws, making use, instead, of a system of arbitration.
• meretrixA prostitute in Ancient Rome.
• MesseniaA regional unit in the south-western Peloponnese, Greece, which has its modern capital at Kalamata. The original capital was at Messene.
• metatarsusThe part of the foot between the toes and the ankle, especially its five bones.
• MethanaA city in Attica, Greece.
• MethoneAn ancient city near present-day Methoni in Peloponnese, Greece.