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Glossary of Latin Words.
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  • accola:—a colonist; a cultivator of land where he was not born.
  • accompliamentum:—accomplishment.
  • accrescendi jus:—right of increase.
  • acedia:—melancholy.
  • acega:—a woodcock (scolopax rusticola).
  • acellarius:—"a spenser," cellarer.
  • acentus:—increase.
  • acerrum, acerum:—steel.
  • aceta:—a snipe, or woodcock.
  • achaptare. See accapitare.
  • achatum:—purchase, bargain.
  • achersetus:—a measure of corn, conjectured to be a quarter.
  • achevare:—to finish.
  • acitula:—henbane.
  • acolabium:—a farm, a tenement.
  • acoluthus:—an acolyte. O. E. a colet.
  • acopatus. See acupatus.
  • acordum:—accord; assent.
  • acquestra:—acquisition.
  • acquietantia:—a discharge in writing, of money paid or debt due; quittance.
  • acquietare:—to pay; to free or discharge.
  • acquirere, adquirere:—to purchase; to acquit.
  • acra:—an acre of land; a judicial combat, holm gang.
  • acra anglicana:—20 English acres in the reign of Richard I. are said to be equal to 22 acres.
  • acroisia:—blindness. For aorisia.
  • actachiare. See attachiare.
  • actilia:—armour and weapons; gear. See atilium.
  • actio:—a legal demand of a right.
  • actionare:—to prosecute.
  • acto:—a haqueton, a padded or quilted tunic worn under the mail.
  • actor:—a proctor or advocate in civil courts.
  • actor dominicus:—the bailiff or attorney of a lord.
  • actor ecclesiæ:—the advocate or pleading patron of a church.
  • actor villæ:—the steward or head bailiff of a town or village.
  • actornatus. See attornatus.
  • actuarius:—the clerk who registers the acts of convocation.
  • acuarium:—a needle case.
  • acucio:—sharpening.
  • aculus, acula:—an aglet, a metal tag.
  • acupatus:—charged with (adculpatus).
  • acuperium:—a whetstone.
  • acupictor:—an embroiderer.
  • acusile:—a trinket.
  • acustumabilis, acustumatus:—liable to custom.
  • acustumare:—to exact custom; to exempt from custom.
  • acuta:—ague.
  • acutecula:—a steel; a hone.
  • ad. Sometimes used for "at" not "to" a place.