acute

acute is a Latin form of acuo, meaning “sharpen; spur on, stimulate; (acutus) sharp, keen”. It is the perfect passive participle vocative singular neuter or perfect passive participle vocative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of acutus, “sharp, pointed; keen, shrewd; shrill”.

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.20: … are decumanum. scripta lex ita diligenter est ut eum scripsisse appareat qui alia vectigalia non haberet, ita acute ut Siculum, ita severe ut tyrannum; qua lege Siculis tamen arare expediret; nam ita diligenter constituta sun …

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.