Latin search results for: acuere

#1

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. come to a head (PASS)
  2. spur on, provoke, incite
  3. whet, sharpen, cut to a point
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

verb

  • conjugation: 2nd conjugation

Definitions:

  1. accentuate
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Calepinus Novus, “Modern Latin”, by Guy Licoppe (Cal)