acrius

acrius is a Latin form of acer, meaning “sharp, keen, fierce”. It is the comparative adverb.

Found 200 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.5.1: Cum iam amplius horis sex continenter pugnaretur, ac non solum vires sed etiam tela nostros deficerent, atque hostes acrius instarent languidioribusque nostris vallum scindere et fossas complere coepissent, resque esset iam ad extremum perducta casum,

Ovid, Amores 1.2.17: Acrius invitos multoque ferocius urget

Plautus, Stichus 1.3.180: propterea, credo, nunc essurio ácrius.

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.