acus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.kus/, [ˈäkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.kus/, [ˈäːkus]
Etymology 1
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From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). Related to acuō (“sharpen, whet”) and aciēs (“edge”).
Noun
acus f (genitive acūs); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | acus | acūs |
Genitive | acūs | acuum |
Dative | acuī | acibus |
Accusative | acum | acūs |
Ablative | acū | acibus |
Vocative | acus | acūs |
Derived terms
- acia
- acū pingō (“I embroider”)
- acuārius
- acucula
- acula
- aculeus
- acuō
- aquifolium
- foramen acūs (“the eye of a needle”)
- rem acū tetigistī, acū tetigistī
Descendants
- Aromanian: ac
- Dalmatian: juac
- English: acupuncture
- Istriot: ago
- Italian: ago
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”), cognates including agna (“ear”) and Proto-Germanic *ahaz (“ear”), Proto-Germanic *aganō, *ahanō (“chaff”) (> English awn), Ancient Greek ἄχυρον (ákhuron), Greek άχυρο (áchyro, “hay”).
Noun
acus n (genitive aceris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | acus | acera |
Genitive | aceris | acerum |
Dative | acerī | aceribus |
Accusative | acus | acera |
Ablative | acere | aceribus |
Vocative | acus | acera |
Derived terms
References
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “acus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 7
- “acus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acus 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)
- acus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- you have hit the nail on the head: rem acu tetigisti
- you have hit the nail on the head: rem acu tetigisti
- “acus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “acus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Categories:
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the third declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook