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): [a.ku.leˈaː.tus] === Adjective === aculeātus (feminine aculeāta, neuter aculeātum, superlative aculeātissimus); first/second-declension adjective prickly barbed stinging, barbed (metaphorical) subtle ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== 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.