acer

acer (plural acers)

1. Obsolete spelling of acre

• -care, Acre, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, Race, acre, care, e-car, race, race-

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin aciārium, from Latin aciēs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare French acier, Galician aceiro, Italian acciaio, Occitan acièr, Portuguese aço, Spanish acero.

acer m (uncountable)

1. steel

• “acer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós (“sharp”). The change from o-stem to i-stem declension is irregular and not fully explained. Likewise, Latin has irregular lengthening of the vowel. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ker/, [ˈaː.kɛr]

ācer (feminine ācris, neuter ācre); third declension

1. sharp, sour, bitter
2. keen, sagacious

Third declension, nominative masculine singular in -er, nominative neuter singular in -e.

• comparative: ācrior, superlative: ācerrimus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ker/, [ˈa.kɛr]

acer n (genitive aceris); third declension

1. maple tree

Third declension neuter.

• acernus

• Catalan: auró
• Esperanto: acero
• French: érable
• Italian: acero
• Portuguese: ácer
• Romanian: arțar
• Spanish: ácere, arce
• Translingual: Acer

• acer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the pain is very severe: acer morsus doloris est (Tusc. 2. 22. 53)
    

See acier.

acer m (nominative singular acers)

1. Alternative form of acier