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acerbus
acerbus
Latin
Adjective
acerbus m (feminine acerba, neuter acerbum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | acerbus | acerba | acerbum | acerbī | acerbae | acerba | |
| genitive | acerbī | acerbae | acerbī | acerbōrum | acerbārum | acerbōrum | |
| dative | acerbō | acerbō | acerbīs | ||||
| accusative | acerbum | acerbam | acerbum | acerbōs | acerbās | acerba | |
| ablative | acerbō | acerbā | acerbō | acerbīs | |||
| vocative | acerbe | acerba | acerbum | acerbī | acerbae | acerba | |
- comparative: acerbior, superlative: acerbissimus
Related terms
Descendants
References
- acerbus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- acerbus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “acerbus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to cause any one very acute pain: acerbum dolorem alicui inurere
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(ambiguous) he has had many painful experiences: multa acerba expertus est
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(ambiguous) to demand payment: pecuniam exigere (acerbe)
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(ambiguous) to exact the taxes (with severity): vectigalia exigere (acerbe)
- to cause any one very acute pain: acerbum dolorem alicui inurere