different between aches vs acies

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?ks/

Noun

aches

1. plural of ache

Verb

aches

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ache

Anagrams

• Chaes, Chase, Cheas, HACEs, chase, e-cash, ecash

French

Noun

aches m

1. plural of ache

Middle English

Etymology 1

From ache (“aching”) +? -es (“plural suffix”)

Noun

aches

1. plural of ache (“aching”)

Etymology 2

From ache (“celery”) +? -es (“plural suffix”)

Noun

aches

1. plural of ache (“celery”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?ches

Verb

aches

1. Second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of achar
2. Second-person singular (tu) negative imperative of achar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aci?s (“edge, sharpness”).

Noun

acies (uncountable)

1. (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)

Anagrams

• -icase, acise, saice

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp, pointed”).Cognate with Ancient Greek ???? (akís, “point, pointed object”), ??? (ak?, “point”) and Proto-Germanic *agj? (whence English edge).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ki.e?s/, [?äkie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.t??i.es/, [???t??i?s]

Noun

aci?s f (genitive aci??); fifth declension

1. sharp edge or point
2. battle line
3. battle, engagement
4. (Late Latin) steel

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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