"macro-" meaning in English

See macro- in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prefix

IPA: /ˈmækɹoʊ/ [US], /ˈmækɹəʊ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-macro-.wav [Southern-England] Forms: macr- [alternative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós Proto-Hellenic *makrós Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der. French macro-der. English macro- From French, from Latin, from Ancient Greek μακρο- (makro-), combinging form of μακρός (makrós, “long”). By surface analysis, macr- + -o-. Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|:der|fr:macro-|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós Proto-Hellenic *makrós Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der. French macro-der. English macro- [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "long", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*meh₂ḱ-", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "id" : "adjectival", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-rós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*mh₂ḱrós", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Hellenic", "term" : "*makrós", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "grk-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "μᾰκρός", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "macro-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fr" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "macro-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="macro-">, {{der|en|fr|-}} French, {{der|en|la|-}} Latin, {{der|en|grc|μακρο-}} Ancient Greek μακρο- (makro-), {{surf|en|macr-|-o-}} By surface analysis, macr- + -o- Head templates: {{en-prefix}} macro-
  1. large Tags: morpheme Translations (large): makro- (Afrikaans), մակրո- (makro-) (Armenian), macro- (Catalan), 宏觀 /宏观 (hóngguān) (Chinese Mandarin), (jù) (Chinese Mandarin), makro- (Danish), macro- (Dutch), makro- (Finnish), macro- (French), macro- (Galician), მაკრო- (maḳro-) (Georgian), makro- (German), μακρο- (makro-) (Greek), stór- (Icelandic), óeðlilega stór [feminine, masculine] (Icelandic), óeðlilega stórt [neuter] (Icelandic), risa- (Icelandic), makro- (Indonesian), macra- (Irish), មហា- (mɔhaa-) (Khmer), makro- (Polish), macro- (Portuguese), macro- (Romanian), ма́кро- (mákro-) (Russian), macro- (Spanish), makro- (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-macro--en-prefix-en:large Disambiguation of 'large': 80 0 0 0 0 20
  2. long Tags: morpheme Translations (long): makro- (Afrikaans), macro- (Galician), μακρο- (makro-) (Greek), lang- (Icelandic), makro- (Indonesian), macra- (Irish), ទីឃ- (tiikʰea’-) (Khmer), makro- (Polish)
    Sense id: en-macro--en-prefix-en:long Disambiguation of 'long': 0 100 0 0 0 0
  3. inclusive Tags: inclusive, morpheme
    Sense id: en-macro--en-prefix-en:inclusive
  4. (augmentative) intensely, extremely, or exceptional Tags: augmentative, morpheme
    Sense id: en-macro--en-prefix-en:intensifying
  5. great in scope or scale, to analyse at a high level, or existing in such a frame of reference Tags: morpheme Derived forms: macromere, macroscopic Related terms: macron
    Sense id: en-macro--en-prefix-en:highlevel Categories (other): Terms with Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 0 0 4 6 44 46 Synonyms: super- [augmentative], supra- [augmentative], hyper- [augmentative], ultra- [augmentative], uber- [augmentative], arch- [augmentative], over- [augmentative], mega- [augmentative], maxi- [augmentative], giga- [augmentative], -zilla [augmentative], grand [augmentative]
  6. large in quantity Tags: morpheme
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Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.