The corpus record — Latin

Ác

sharp

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Where it lives

Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

1. AC — Lewis & Short

AC, a Latin root, denoting (

1 ) sharp and (

2 ) quick, kindred with the Greek a)/kros and w)k-u/s, Sanscr. ācu (= celeriter). Hence the Latin acer, acies, acuo, acus, acutus, aquila, accipiter, acupedius (prob. also equus), ocior, and oculus.

2. ac — Lewis & Short

ac,

I conj., v. atque.

In the wild

ác Cicero, De Divinatione 1.45
ác Plautus, Mostellaria 4.4
ác Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.23.4
Ác Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.2.p1
ác Plautus, Cistellaria 1.1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.