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Webster 1828 Edition


Acetum

ACE'TUM

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Noun.
[L. See Acid.] Vinegar, a sour liquor, obtained from vegetables dissolved in boiling water, and from fermented and spirituous liquors, by exposing them to heat and air.
This is called the acid or acetous fermentation

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acetum

acetum

Latin

Noun

acētum n (genitive acētī); second declension

  1. vinegar
  2. (figuratively) wit, shrewdness

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative acētum acēta
genitive acētī acētōrum
dative acētō acētīs
accusative acētum acēta
ablative acētō acētīs
vocative acētum acēta

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