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Old Irish
Etymology
It is uncertain whether acis is the same word as accuis (“cause, occasion”). If so, either the meaning ‘pretense’ is nowhere else attested for accuis or the scribe misinterpreted the Latin sub obtentu.
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
fu acis
- under pretense, under the pretext
- 808, Book of Armagh, 189a2, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (1901–03, Cambridge University Press; reprinted 1975, 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 1, p. 498, l. 29:
- fu acis [translating sub obtentu] ― under pretense, under the pretext