acersecomes

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀκερσεκόμης (akersekómēs, “with unshorn hair, young”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + κερσ- (kers-), Epic aorist stem of κείρω (keírō, “shear”) + κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

Noun

acersecomēs m (genitive acersecomae); first declension (hapax legomenon)

1. a boy or man whose hair has not been cut; a young man, youth
   • Juvenalis, Satire 8.127, 128, 131:

     si tibi sancta cohors comitum, si nemo tribunal
     vendit acersecomes, si nullum in coniuge crimen
     […]
     tum licet a Pico numeres genus […]

     If your whole staff be incorruptible; if no long-haired youth sells your judgments; if your wife be blameless; […] then you may trace back your race to Picus […]

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).

	singular	plural
nominative	acersecomēs	acersecomae
genitive	acersecomae	acersecomārum
dative	acersecomae	acersecomīs
accusative	acersecomēn	acersecomās
ablative	acersecomē	acersecomīs
vocative	acersecomē	acersecomae

Descendants

• → English: acersecomic

References

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