aculeatus

Latin

Etymology

From aculeus (“sting, stinger”) +‎ -ātus (“-ed”, adjective-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.kʊ.ɫeˈaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ä.ku.leˈäː.t̪us]

Adjective

aculeātus (feminine aculeāta, neuter aculeātum, superlative aculeātissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. prickly
2. barbed
3. stinging, barbed (metaphorical)
   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 63, (trochaic septenarius):

     PISTOCLERUS: Quia istaec lepida sunt memoratui: / éadem in usu atque úbi periclum fácias, aculeáta sunt, / animum fodicant, bona distimulant, facta et famam sauciant.

     PISTOCLERUS: Because these things are pleasant in the talking of; but in the practice, and when you make trial, the same are armed with stings. They pierce the feelings, goad one's fortune, and wound one's merits and character.― Henry Thomas Riley, 1912, Perseus

4. subtle

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	aculeātus	aculeāta	aculeātum		aculeātī	aculeātae	aculeāta
genitive	aculeātī	aculeātae	aculeātī		aculeātōrum	aculeātārum	aculeātōrum
dative	aculeātō	aculeātae	aculeātō		aculeātīs
accusative	aculeātum	aculeātam	aculeātum		aculeātōs	aculeātās	aculeāta
ablative	aculeātō	aculeātā	aculeātō		aculeātīs
vocative	aculeāte	aculeāta	aculeātum		aculeātī	aculeātae	aculeāta

Descendants

• → Italian: aculeato
• → Portuguese: aculeado
• Translingual: Aculeata

References

• “aculeatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aculeatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aculeatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.