acuta

acuta is a Latin form of acuo, meaning “sharpen; spur on, stimulate; (acutus) sharp, keen”.

It can also be a form of acutus, “sharp, pointed; keen, shrewd; shrill”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective or perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter.

Found 73 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 6.18: … disiunctus inparibus, sed tamen pro rata parte ratione distinctis inpulsu et motu ipsorum orbium efficitur et acuta cum gravibus temperans varios aequabiliter concentus efficit; nec enim silentio tanti motus incitari possunt, …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 10.82.24: … eiceret. Molaribus demum fracta saxis est. Et adversus mortem tu tam minuta iacularis? Subula leonem excipis? Acuta sunt ista, quae dicis: nihil est acutius arista. Quaedam inutilia et inefficacia ipsa subtilitas reddit. Vale …

All forms of acuo (conjugation 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.