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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin acētum.
Noun
acetum (plural acetums or aceta)
- (obsolete) Vinegar, sometimes medicated.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From aceō (“to be sour”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
acētum n (genitive acētī); second declension
- vinegar
c. 69 CE – 122 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."
- (figuratively) wit, shrewdness
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “aceō (> Derivatives > acētum)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 21
Further reading
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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