acutus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of acuō (“sharpen, make sharp”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈkuː.tus/, [äˈkuːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈku.tus/, [äˈkuːt̪us]
Participle
[edit]acūtus (feminine acūta, neuter acūtum, comparative acūtior, superlative acūtissimus); first/second-declension participle
- sharpened, made sharp, sharp, having been sharpened
- spicy
- subtle
- acūta distīnctiō ― a subtle distinction
- acute
- astute, wise, sharp-witted
- having a sharp sound, high-pitched
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | acūtus | acūta | acūtum | acūtī | acūtae | acūta | |
| genitive | acūtī | acūtae | acūtī | acūtōrum | acūtārum | acūtōrum | |
| dative | acūtō | acūtae | acūtō | acūtīs | |||
| accusative | acūtum | acūtam | acūtum | acūtōs | acūtās | acūta | |
| ablative | acūtō | acūtā | acūtō | acūtīs | |||
| vocative | acūte | acūta | acūtum | acūtī | acūtae | acūta | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “acutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acutus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- acutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to draw a subtle inference: acute, subtiliter concludere
- a deep, high, thin, moderate voice: vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris
- to draw a subtle inference: acute, subtiliter concludere