aculeatus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From aculeus (“sting, stinger”) + -ātus (“-ed”, adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.ku.leˈaː.tus/, [äkʊɫ̪eˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.ku.leˈa.tus/, [äkuleˈäːt̪us]
Adjective edit
aculeātus (feminine aculeāta, neuter aculeātum, superlative aculeātissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- prickly
- barbed
- stinging, barbed (metaphorical)
- c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 63, (trochaic septenarius):
- PISTOCLERUS: Quia istaec lepida sunt memoratui: / éadem in usu atque úbi periclum fácias, aculeáta sunt, / animum fodicant, bona distimulant, facta et famam sauciant.
- PISTOCLERUS: Because these things are pleasant in the talking of; but in the practice, and when you make trial, the same are armed with stings. They pierce the feelings, goad one's fortune, and wound one's merits and character.― Henry Thomas Riley, 1912, Perseus
- PISTOCLERUS: Quia istaec lepida sunt memoratui: / éadem in usu atque úbi periclum fácias, aculeáta sunt, / animum fodicant, bona distimulant, facta et famam sauciant.
- subtle
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | aculeātus | aculeāta | aculeātum | aculeātī | aculeātae | aculeāta | |
Genitive | aculeātī | aculeātae | aculeātī | aculeātōrum | aculeātārum | aculeātōrum | |
Dative | aculeātō | aculeātō | aculeātīs | ||||
Accusative | aculeātum | aculeātam | aculeātum | aculeātōs | aculeātās | aculeāta | |
Ablative | aculeātō | aculeātā | aculeātō | aculeātīs | |||
Vocative | aculeāte | aculeāta | aculeātum | aculeātī | aculeātae | aculeāta |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “aculeatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aculeatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aculeatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.