The corpus record — Latin

acernus

acernus · adj

made of

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Where it lives

Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

ăcernus — Lewis & Short

ăcernus, a, um, adj.1. ăcer,

I made of maple: equus trabibus contextus acernis, Verg. A. 2, 112; 9, 87: solio, ib. 8, 178: mensa, Hor. S. 2, 8, 10; cf. Mart. 14, 90: mensae, Ov. Met. 12, 254 al.

In the wild

acernae Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.254
acernus Propertius, Elegiae 4.2.60
acernis Vergil, Aeneid 2.112
acernis Ovid, Fasti 1.423
acernis Vergil, Aeneid 9.87
acernus Boethius, Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 4

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. acernus (scan p. 30; entry #140).

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