acu

acu is a Latin form of acus, meaning “needle, pin; hair-pin; pipefish, needlefish”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 65: … icione non metu exanimari, sed mirabar tamen credi popae, confessionem servorum audiri, volnus in latere quod acu punctum videretur pro ictu gladiatoris probari.

All forms of acus (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.