acuoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈa.ku.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː.ku.o]

動詞

acuō (present infinitive acuere, perfect active acuī, supine acūtum); third conjugation

1. to make pointed, sharpen, whet

   Antonym: hebetō

2. to exercise, practice, improve
   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Brutus 97:

     qui non linguam modo acuisses exercitatione dicendi

     who had not only refined their speech through practice

     (literally, “who had not only sharpened their tongue through the practice of speaking”)

3. to spur, stimulate, arouse
   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 5.834:

     attentiores sumus ad rem omnes quam sat est, quod illos sat aetas acuet

     • 2001 translation by John Barsby

       We all become far too worried about money, on which time will sharpen their attitudes soon enough.

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 28.19.14-15:

     non libertas solum agebatur, quae virorum fortium tantum pectora acuit

     • 2021 translation by J. C. Yardley

       It was not just a matter of their freedom being at stake, something that stimulates only the spirit of the brave

4. (grammar) to put an acute accent on

Conjugation

派生語

派生した語

• → Italian: acuire

参照

Further reading

• “ăcŭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “acuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ăcŭo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to sharpen the wits: ingenium acuere
    
  • (ambiguous) to cultivate one's powers of criticism: iudicium acuere
    
• acuo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016