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acre

acre is a Latin form of acer, meaning “sharp, keen, fierce”. It is the nominative singular neuter noun or vocative singular neuter noun or accusative singular neuter noun.

Found 52 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 37: … antur! etenim si, id quod praeclare a sapientibus dicitur, voltu saepe laeditur pietas, quod supplicium satis acre reperietur in eum qui mortem obtulerit parenti? pro quo mori ipsum, si res postularet, iura divina atque huma …

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.