acum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →acus, acus:
Feminine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
needle, pin; hair-pin; pipefish, needlefish; detail; husks/chaff (pl.);
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Italicas omnis, qua adgreditur mare, sumus circumvecti. si acum, credo, quaereres, acum invenisses, si appareret, iam diu. hominem..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...grana ciceris ex spatio distante missa in acum continuo et sine frustratione inserebat; quem cum spectasset Alexander, donasse..."
