The corpus record — Latin

ăcesta

ăcesta · f

a town in the N. W. part of Sicily

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What it meant

ăcesta — Lewis & Short

ăcesta, ae, also Acestē, es, f., = *)/akesta and *)ake/sth,

I a town in the N. W. part of Sicily, near the coast; earlier Egesta, later Segesta, near the modern Alcamo, Verg. A. 5, 718; 9, 218; cf. Serv. ad 1, 550, and Heyne Excurs. I. ad Aen. V.—

II Deriv.

A ăcestenses, ium, m., the inhabitants of A., Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 36, § 83. —

B ăcestaei, the same, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 91.

Where it came from

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

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