aigu
French
adj
Definitions
- sharp, pointy
- (of intelligence) acute, keen, discerning
- (of sound) sharp, loud and high-pitched
- (medicine) acute
- (mathematics) acute
- (linguistics) acute
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French aigu inherited from Old French agu (needle) derived from Latin acūtus (sharp, acute).
Origin
Latin
acūtus
Gloss
sharp, acute
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
鋭
Emoji
🪒
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acutance English
- acute English
- acute flaccid myelitis English
- acute-angled English
- acutely English
- acuteness English
- gravo-acute accent English
- hyperacute English
- nonacute English
- postacute English
- preacute English
- subacute English
- superacute English
- unacute English
- *acutiāre Latin
- *acūtiāre Latin
- Acutius Latin
- acidare Latin
- acutiflorus Latin
- acūtus Latin
- Akut German
- acuto Italian
- acuut Dutch, Flemish
- acut French
- acutangle French
- aigument French
- subaigu French
- suraigu French
- agudo Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- acūte Middle English
- agu Middle English
- agu Old French
- agut Catalan, Valencian
- akuta Ido
- acuit Old Irish
- aîdgu Norman
- agu Middle French
- aigu Middle French
- agudo Old Portuguese
- agut Occitan
- acûto Ligurian
- agùsso Ligurian