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acervum

acervum is a Latin form of acervus, meaning “heap, pile”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun or accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.2.2: in manibus tenebam et hercule magnum acervum Dicaearchi mihi ante pedes exstruxeram. o magnum hominem et unde multo plura didiceris quam de Procilio! et p …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 29.7.5: sarcinis in aceruum coniectis cum haud procul muris ad terrorem hostium aciem ostendisset, cum equitibus Numidis circumequitabat urbem, dum scalae quaeque alia ad oppugnandum opus erant parantur, ad uisendum qua maxime parte adgrederetur:

All forms of acervus (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.