acerbum

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

Found 81 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 68: … em; paene dicam, respersas manus sanguine paterno iudices videant oportet, si tantum facinus, tam immane, tam acerbum credituri sunt.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 3.24.5: Mucius ignibus manum inposuit. Acerbum est uri; quanto acerbius, si id te faciente patiaris! Vides hominem non eruditum nec ullis praeceptis contra …

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.