acetum
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
acetum (plural acetums)
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From aceō (“to be sour”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈkeː.tum/, [äˈkeːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈt͡ʃe.tum/, [ɑˈt͡ʃɛːt̪um]
Noun[edit]
acētum n (genitive acētī); second declension
- vinegar
- 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum 4.37:
- Nepōtātus sūmptibus omnium prōdigōrum ingenia superāvit, commentus novum balneārum ūsum, portentōsissima genera cibōrum atque cēnārum, ut calidīs frīgidīsque unguentīs lavārētur, prētiōsissima margarīta acētō liquefacta sorbēret, convīvīs ex aurō pānēs et obsōnia appōneret, aut frūgī hominem esse oportere dictitāns aut Caesarem.
- 1889 translation by Alexander Thomson
- In the devices of his profuse expenditure, he surpassed all the prodigals that ever lived; inventing a new kind of bath, with strange dishes and suppers, washing in precious unguents, both warm and cold, drinking pearls of immense value dissolved in vinegar, and serving up for his guests loaves and other victuals modelled in gold; often saying, " that a man ought either to be a good economist or an emperor."
- 1889 translation by Alexander Thomson
- Nepōtātus sūmptibus omnium prōdigōrum ingenia superāvit, commentus novum balneārum ūsum, portentōsissima genera cibōrum atque cēnārum, ut calidīs frīgidīsque unguentīs lavārētur, prētiōsissima margarīta acētō liquefacta sorbēret, convīvīs ex aurō pānēs et obsōnia appōneret, aut frūgī hominem esse oportere dictitāns aut Caesarem.
- (figuratively) wit, shrewdness
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | acētum | acēta |
Genitive | acētī | acētōrum |
Dative | acētō | acētīs |
Accusative | acētum | acēta |
Ablative | acētō | acētīs |
Vocative | acētum | acēta |
Derived terms[edit]
- acētābulum
- acētāria
- acetulum
- *acētillum (Late Latin)
Descendants[edit]
- Borrowings
- English: acetate, acetum
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍄 (akeit), 𐌰𐌺𐌴𐍄 (akēt)
- Middle Dutch: edic
- Middle Low German: edik
- Old English: æċed, eċed, æċċed
- Old High German: ezzih (see there for further descendants)
- Old Irish: aicét, aigéd
- Irish: aigéad (“acid”)
- Slavic: *ocьtъ (see there for further descendants)
- West Frisian: jittik
References[edit]
- acetum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- acetum in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
- acetum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- acetum in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
- acetum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898
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