acetum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin acetum

Noun

acetum (plural acetums)

1. (obsolete) vinegar (sometimes medicated)

Anagrams

• cumate, mucate

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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

(Romance descendants:)

• Dalmatian: acait
• Friulian: asêt
• Galician: acedo
• Istriot: azì
• Italian: aceto
• Old French: aisil, aisin
  • → Dutch: azijn

• Portuguese: azedo
• Romansh: aschieu, ischiu, aschaid
• Sardinian: achedu, achetu
• Sicilian: acitu
• Spanish: acedo
• Venetian: axedo, axéo

(Loanwords:)

• → English: acetate, acetum
• → Gothic: 𐌰𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍄 (akeit), 𐌰𐌺𐌴𐍄 (akēt)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: оцьтъ (ocĭtŭ)
    • Belarusian: о́цет (ócjet)
    • Bulgarian: оце́т (océt)
      • Macedonian: оцет (ocet)
    • Czech: ocet
    • → Hungarian: ecet
    • Polish: ocet
    • → Romanian: oțet
    • Russian: о́цет (ócet)
    • Serbo-Croatian: ocat
    • Slovak: ocot
    • Ukrainian: о́цет (ócet)
• → Middle Dutch: edik
  • Dutch: edik
• → Middle Low German: edik
  • → Old Norse: edik
    • Danish: eddike
    • Faroese: edikur
    • Icelandic: edik
    • Norwegian: eddik
    • Swedish: ättika
• → Old English: æced
• → Old High German: ezzih
  • German: Essig
• → Old Irish: aicét, aigéd
  • Irish: aigéad (“acid”)

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
• acetum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• acetum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• acetum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers