The corpus record — Latin

acidus

acidus · adj

sour

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Where it lives

De Medicina 16 · 1.56/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Satyricon 4 · 1.31/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăcĭdus — Lewis & Short

ăcĭdus, a, um, adj.aceo,

I sour, tart, acid.

I Lit.: sapor, Plin. 15, 27, 32, § 106; sorba, Verg. G. 3, 380: inula, Hor. S. 2, 2, 43: lac, Plin. 28, 9, 36, § 135: caseus, ib. 9, 34, § 132: acidissumum acetum, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 49.—

B Transf.

1 Like acer, from taste to sound, harsh, rough, shrill: sonus acidior, Petr. 68; cf. canticum, ib. 31.—

2 Acida creta, chalk steeped in vinegar, Mart. 6, 93.—

II Fig., sharp, keen, pungent: homo acidae linguae, Sen. Contr. 5, 34; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 53: quod petis, id sane est invisum acidumque duobus, unpleasant, disagreeable, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 64.—Adv.: ăcĭde, bitterly, disagreeably: non acide feras, Vulg. Ecclus. 4, 9.—Comp.: sibi acidius fuit, Petr. S. 92.

In the wild

acidis Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.19
acidis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.44.p6
acido Celsus, De Medicina 6.9
acida Celsus, De Medicina 2.24
acida Celsus, De Medicina 4.16
acidum Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 8.395

6 of 54 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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