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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of acuō (“sharpen, make sharp”).
Pronunciation
Participle
acūtus (feminine acūta, neuter acūtum, comparative acūtior, superlative acūtissimus); first/second-declension participle
- sharpened, made sharp, sharp, having been sharpened
- spicy
- subtle
- acūta distīnctiō ― a subtle distinction
- acute
- astute, wise, sharp-witted
- having a sharp sound, high-pitched
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “acutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acutus 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)
- acutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to draw a subtle inference: acute, subtiliter concludere
- a deep, high, thin, moderate voice: vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris