acetum

Latin

Etymology

From aceō (“to be sour”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈkeː.tum/, [aˈkeː.tũ]

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

Derived terms

• acētābulum
• acētāria

Descendants

• Czech: ocet
• Dalmatian: acait
• Dutch: azijn
• English: acetate
• Friulian: asêt
• Hungarian: ecet
• Irish: aigéad (“acid”)
• Istriot: azì
• Italian: aceto
• Old Church Slavonic: оцьтъ (ocĭtŭ)
• Old English: æced
• Old French: aisil
• Old High German: ezzih
  • German: Essig

• Old Norse: edik
  • Danish: eddike
  • Icelandic: edik
  • Norwegian: eddik
  • Swedish: ättika
• Polish: ocet
• Portuguese: azedo
• Romanian: oțet (via Slavic)
• Romansh: aschieu, ischiu, aschaid
• Sardinian: achedu, achetu
• Serbo-Croatian: ocat
• Sicilian: acitu
• Spanish: acedo
• Venetian: axedo, axéo

References

• acetum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acetum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “acetum”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “acetum” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• acetum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers