acutus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of acuō (“sharpen, make sharp”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈkuː.tʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈkuː.t̪us]

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.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	acūtus	acūta	acūtum	acūtī	acūtae	acūta
genitive	acūtī	acūtae	acūtī	acūtōrum	acūtārum	acūtōrum
dative	acūtō	acūtae	acūtō	acūtīs
accusative	acūtum	acūtam	acūtum	acūtōs	acūtās	acūta
ablative	acūtō	acūtā	acūtō	acūtīs
vocative	acūte	acūta	acūtum	acūtī	acūtae	acūta

Derived terms

Descendants

Asturian: agudu
→ Dutch: acuut
Italian: acuto
→ Middle English: acute
- English: acute
Old French: agu
- Middle French: aigu, agu
  - French: aigu
    - → Norwegian Bokmål: aigu
  - → Middle English: agu
    - English: ague
- Norman: aîdgu (Jersey)
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: agut
- Occitan: agut
→ Old Irish: acuit
- Irish: agúid
Portuguese: agudo
→ Romanian: acut
Spanish: agudo

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to draw a subtle inference: acute, subtiliter concludere
- a deep, high, thin, moderate voice: vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris