acui
Dictionary entries
- Entry →acesco, acescere, acui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
turn/become sour;
sg. perf. act. ind. 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. perf. act. ind. 1stpres. pass. infin. - Entry →acus, acus:
Feminine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
needle, pin; hair-pin; pipefish, needlefish; detail; husks/chaff (pl.);
dat. sg.
Examples
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...quoque, quod "exadversum" dicimus, secundam syllabam debere acui existimabat, quoniam una, non duae essent partes orationis; atque..."Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...retinent. Sed si, quemadmodum visus oculorum quibusdam medicamentis acui solet et repurgari, sic nos aciem animi liberare inpedimentis..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...enim opus esset in id comparari et acui in quod instinctu quodam voluntario iremus, sicut feruntur omnes..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...mediam dederunt, quia [duabus longis sequentibus] primam brevem acui noster sermo non patitur. LXIII. Sic genetivus "Vlixi..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...generis? timor hic meminisse priorum non sinit; en acui sceleratos cernitis enses. quos prohibete, precor, facinusque repellite neve..."
