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acerrimus

acerrimus is a Latin form of acer, meaning “sharp, keen, fierce”. It is the nominative singular masculine superlative noun.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.8: ergo his institutis provinciae iam tum, cum bello sociorum tota Italia arderet, homo non acerrimus nec fortissimus, C. Norbanus, in summo otio fuit: perfacile enim sese Sicilia iam tuebatur, ut ne quod ex ips …

All forms of acer (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.