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From Proto-Hellenic *makrós, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós, from *meh₂ḱ- (to increase). By surface analysis, μῆκος (mêkos) +‎ -ρός (-rós). Cognates include Latin macer and Old English mæger.[1]

μᾰκρός (makrósm (feminine μᾰκρᾱ́, neuter μᾰκρόν); first/second declension

  1. long
  2. tall, deep
  3. far, distant
  4. (time) long
  5. (grammar, of vowels) long
  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μακρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 895