Learned borrowing fromLatinacerbus.
acerbe (pluralacerbes)
- acerb (bitter to the taste)
- harsh
acerbe
- feminineplural ofacerbo
acerbus +-ē
acerbē (comparativeacerbius,superlativeacerbissimē)
- stridently
- cruelly,harshly
- severely
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
acerbe
- vocativemasculinesingular ofacerbus
- “acerbe”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acerbe”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acerbe inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to demand payment:pecuniam exigere (acerbe)
- (ambiguous) to exact the taxes (with severity):vectigalia exigere (acerbe)
acerbe
- inflection ofacerbar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative