acer

See also: Acer

English

Noun

acer (plural acers)

1. Obsolete spelling of acre.

Anagrams

• -care, Acre, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, Race, acre, care, e-car, race, race-

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Late Latin aciārium, from Latin aciēs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare French acier, Galician aceiro, Italian acciaio, Occitan acièr, Portuguese aço, Spanish acero.

Noun

acer m (uncountable)

1. steel

Further reading

• “acer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Latin

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós (“sharp”). The change from o-stem to i-stem declension is irregular and not fully explained. Likewise, Latin has irregular lengthening of the vowel. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ker/, [ˈäːkɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.t͡ʃer/, [ˈäːt͡ʃer]

Adjective

ācer (feminine ācris, neuter ācre, comparative ācrior, superlative ācerrimus, adverb ācriter); third-declension three-termination adjective

1. sharp, sour, bitter
2. keen, sagacious
3. violent, cruel

Declension

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ācer	ācris	ācre		ācrēs		ācria
Genitive	ācris				ācrium
Dative	ācrī				ācribus
Accusative	ācrem		ācre		ācrēs		ācria
Ablative	ācrī				ācribus
Vocative	ācer	ācris	ācre		ācrēs		ācria

Derived terms

• acerbus
• acervus
• ācrimōnia
• ācriter
• ācritās
• ācritūdō

 

Descendants

• English: acrid, eager, acrylic
• Esperanto: akra
• French: aigre, âcre
• Irish: aichear
• Italian: acre, agro
• Occitan: agre

• Portuguese: agre, acre
• Romanian: acru
• Sicilian: agru, àiru, àghiru
• Spanish: agre, agrio, agro
• Venetian: agro

Etymology 2

Same as Etymology 1, with reference to multi-pointed leaves.
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag "ak̂er-"

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ker/, [ˈäkɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.t͡ʃer/, [ˈäːt͡ʃer]

Noun

acer n (genitive aceris); third declension

1. maple tree

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	acer	acera
Genitive	aceris	acerum
Dative	acerī	aceribus
Accusative	acer	acera
Ablative	acere	aceribus
Vocative	acer	acera

Derived terms

• acernus

Descendants

• Catalan: auró
• Esperanto: acero
• French: érable
• Italian: acero
• Portuguese: ácer
• Romanian: arțar
• Spanish: ácere, arce
• Translingual: Acer

References

• “acer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “acer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the pain is very severe: acer morsus doloris est (Tusc. 2. 22. 53)
    

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Old French

Etymology

See acier.

Noun

acer oblique singular, m (nominative singular acers)

1. Alternative form of acier

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Welsh

Etymology

From Middle English aker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈakɛr/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈakar/
• IPA^(key): /ˈakɛr/

Noun

acer f (plural aceri)

1. acre

   Synonyms: cyfair, erw

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
acer	unchanged	unchanged	hacer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “acer”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies