acutus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Perfect passive participle of acuō (“sharpen, make sharp”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) 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.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | acūtus | acūta | acūtum | acūtī | acūtae | acūta | |
| Genitive | acūtī | acūtae | acūtī | acūtōrum | acūtārum | acūtōrum | |
| Dative | acūtō | 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