acutum

acutum 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 accusative singular neuter adjective or supine nominative singular neuter or perfect passive participle genitive plural neuter.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.12: … , disseretur inter principes civitatis, P. Scaevolam M’. que Manilium, ab iisque M. Brutus dissentiet—quod et acutum genus est et ad usus civium non inutile, nosque ea scripta reliquaque eiusdem generis et legimus libenter et …

Cicero, On Oratory 2.273: Acutum etiam illud est, cum ex alterius oratione aliud excipias atque ille vult; ut Salinatori Maximus, cum Tarento …

Plautus, Epidicus 2.2.183: acútum cultrum habeó, senis qui exénterem marsúppium.

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.