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acerbe

acerbe is a Latin form of acerbus, meaning “bitter, harsh, sour; painful; untimely”. It is the adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective or vocative singular masculine adjective.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.152: … m pueritiae pater dederat, indicium atque insigne fortunae, hoc ab isto praedone ereptum esse graviter tum et acerbe homines ferebant.

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.