acuerer
Dictionary entries
- Entry →acueo, acuere, acuui, acuitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Calepinus
- Age:
- Medieval
accentuate;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st - Entry →acuo, acuere, acui, acutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
whet, sharpen, cut to a point; spur on, provoke, incite; come to a head (PASS);
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- M
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Sarmata, bracis 430Vangiones, Batauique truces, quos aere recuruostridentes acuere tubae; qua Cinga pererratgurgite, qua Rhodanus raptum uelocibus undisin..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...adeuntibus apparebit multa rerum subtilitas, quae non modo acuere ingenia puerilia, sed exercere altissimam quoque eruditionem ac scientiam..." - G
Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...tristi fata deflebo mea." XXII. [Vrsus esuriens]Famam acuere animantibus ingenium Si quando in siluis urso desunt copiae..." - T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...effectus erat. neminem totis mox castris quietum uideres: acuere alii gladios, alii galeas bucculasque [scutorum], alii loricas tergere..." - T
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...tutandos semet ipsos et rem publicam secum acuerent animos et ne inultos imperatores suos iacere sinerent; cum subito..."