The corpus record — Latin

acquiro

acquiro · v. a

to add to

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Where it lives

Divus Claudius 3 · 4.7/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 2 · 3.24/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Apologia 5 · 2.33/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ac-quīro — Lewis & Short

ac-quīro (adqu.), sīvi, sītum, 3, v. a.quaero,

I to add to, to get or acquire (in addition), with ad or dat. (freq. in Cic.).

I Lit.: mihi quidem ipsi, quid est quod ad vitae fructum possit acquiri? Cic. Cat. 3, 12; 2, 8: vides quam omnis gratias non modo retinendas, sed etiam acquirendas putemus, but even new favor is to be acquired, id. Att. 1, 1; Sall. J. 13, 6; and poet.: viresque adquirit eundo, and gains (ever new and greater) strength in her course, Verg. A. 4, 175.—

II In gen.

A To get, obtain, procure, secure: quod ad usum vitae pertineat, Cic. Off. 3, 5, 22; id. Fam. 10, 3: famam, Phaedr. 1, 14: moram, Cic. Caecin. 2: vires, Ov. M. 7, 459: adquirere pauca (sc. nova verba), Hor. A. P. 55.—

B In later Lat., absol., to acquire or amass riches or money (cf.: quaero, quaestus; abundo, abundantia) [mox adquirendi docet insatiabile votum, Juv. 14, 125]: acquirendi ratio, Quint. 12, 7, 10.

In the wild

acquirere Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.74
adquirenda Juvenal, Saturae 5.14.223
adquirit Vergil, Aeneid 4.175
adquisitus Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.pr.1
adquirit Seneca, De Ira 3.5.4
adquirendis Tacitus, Annales 12.p42

6 of 124 attestations shown.

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