acerba

acerba is a Latin form of acerbus, meaning “bitter, harsh, sour; painful; untimely”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 109 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.14.10: haec si gravia aut acerba videantur, multo illa gravius aestimare, liberos, coniuges in servitutem abstrahi, ipsos interfici; quae sit necesse accidere victis.

Seneca the Younger, Agamemnon 416: Acerba fatu poscis, infaustum iubes

Plautus, Bacchides 4.3.628: múlta mala mi in péctore nunc ácria atque acérba eveniunt.

All forms of acerbus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.