acumina
Dictionary entries
- Entry →acumino, acuminare, acuminavi, acuminatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
sharpen, make pointed, cut to a point;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd - Entry →acumen, acuminis:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sharpened point, spur; sting; peak, promontory; sharpness/cunning/acumen; fraud;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...quaeque secuta, traxit et in solidam detrusit acumina terram, utque suum laqueis, quos callidus abdidit auceps, crus..." - G
de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...scutisque capita contegebant. Eadem nocte V legionis pilorum acumina sua sponte arserunt. Rex interim Iuba de equestri proelio..."
