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
- T
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Italicas omnis, qua adgreditur mare, sumus circumvecti. si acum, credo, quaereres, acum invenisses, si appareret, iam diu. hominem..." - M
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..."
