The corpus record — Latin

acerbo

acerbo · v. a

To make harsh

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

ăcerbo — Lewis & Short

ăcerbo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id. (vox Vergil.).

I To make harsh or bitter, to embitter; lit. and trop. (very rare): gaudia, Stat. Th. 12, 75: mortem, Val. Fl. 6, 655.— Hence in an extended sense,

II To augment or aggravate any thing disagreeable (cf. acuo): formidine crimen acerbat, Verg. A. 11, 407: nefas Eteoclis, Stat. Th. 3, 214.

In the wild

acerbat Statius, Thebais 9.302
acerbat Vergil, Aeneid 11.407
acerbat Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.655
acerbat Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.208
acerbans Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 244
acerbat Claudian, In Rufinum 1.1.182

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.