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acris

acris is a Latin form of acer, meaning “sharp, keen, fierce”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 52 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 2.21: … rum defetigati permulti et ex urbe et ex agris se in illa castra conferre dicuntur. hosce ego non tam milites acris quam infitiatores lentos esse arbitror. qui homines quam primum, si stare non possunt, conruant, sed ita ut n …

Martial, Epigrammata 6.38.7: Acris equi suboles magno sic pulvere gaudet,

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.