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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀκερσεκόμης (akersekómēs, “with unshorn hair, young”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + κερσ- (kers-), Epic aorist stem of κείρω (keírō, “shear”) + κόμη (kómē, “hair”).
Noun
acersecomēs m (genitive acersecomae); first declension (hapax)
- a boy or man whose hair has not been cut; a young man, youth
Juvenal,
Satire 8.127, 128, 131:
- si tibi sancta cohors comitum, si nemo tribunal
vendit acersecomes, si nullum in coniuge crimen
tum licet a Pico numeres genus - If your whole staff be incorruptible; if no long-haired youth sells your judgments; if your wife be blameless; then you may trace back your race to Picus
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
Descendants
References
- “acersecomes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acersecomes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acersecomes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.