acies

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin aciēs (“edge, sharpness”). === Noun === acies (plural acies) (obsolete) The full attention of one's sight, hearing or other senses, as directed towards a particular object. 1658: And therefore providence hath arched and paved the great house of the world, with colours of mediocrity, that is, blew and green, above and below the sight, moderately terminating the acies of the eye. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 204) (obsolete, botany) The edge or angle of certain stems. === Anagrams === -icase, acise, saice == Latin == === Etymology === From aceō (“to be sour”) + -iēs. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “point, pointed object”), ἀκή (akḗ, “point”) and Proto-Germanic *agjō (whence English edge). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.ki.eːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.t͡ʃi.es] === Noun === aciēs f (genitive aciēī); fifth declension sharp edge or point battle line battle, engagement CE 13-14, Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti Qui parentem meum trucidaverunt, eos in exilium expuli iudiciis legitimis ultus eorum facinus, et postea bellum inferentis rei publicae vici bis acie. Those who cruelly killed my parent, I drove them into exile by legal trials having avenged their deed, and afterwards, when they made war on the republic, I defeated them twice in battle. (Late Latin) steel sharpness of sight, keeness of a glance the pupil of an eye a fixed look acuteness of mind a verbal contest ==== Declension ==== Fifth-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== aciāle aciārium ==== Related terms ==== acia acus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “acies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “acies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "acies", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “acies”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “acies”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “acies”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin