acerbe

Learned borrowing from Latin acerbus.

• IPA^(key): /a.sɛʁb/

acerbe (plural acerbes)

1. acerb (bitter to the taste)
2. harsh

• “acerbe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

acerbe

1. feminine plural of acerbo

• becera

Inflected form

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈker.be/, [aˈkɛr.bɛ]

acerbe

1. vocative masculine singular of acerbus

acerbus +‎ -ē

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈker.beː/, [aˈkɛr.beː]

acerbē (comparative acerbius, superlative acerbissimē)

1. stridently
2. cruelly, harshly
3. severely

• acerbe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acerbe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acerbe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to demand payment: pecuniam exigere (acerbe)
    
  • (ambiguous) to exact the taxes (with severity): vectigalia exigere (acerbe)
    

acerbe

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of acerbar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of acerbar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of acerbar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of acerbar