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Translation

sour, acidic

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Word origin

From Latin acidus, 'sour', from acere, 'to be sharp'. The same sharpness is in acer (keen), acus (a needle) and acetum (vinegar), which is why acute, acrid, acne and vinegar are all distant relatives of this word.

Origin
Latin
Root
acidus
English cognates
acid, acute, acrid, vinegar

Examples

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This apple is too sour.

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The milk turned sour in the sun.

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I like a sour taste more than a sweet one.

No suffix, and the false one is a busy suffix. -- is a real and productive Esperanto affix meaning offspring: gives o a kitten, gives o a foal, gives a prince. So invites the reading - plus -- plus -a. There is no root -; acid- is one borrowed unit from Latin, and the only offspring in it are the four English cognates. Watch for the same shape in , and stupida - all single roots, all wearing the same false costume.

The taste vocabulary, in a set. Dolĉa sweet, sour, amara bitter, salty, and for the sharp burn of chilli. is the everyday word for the taste of lemons and of milk that has gone off, and i is what the milk does. For a person, is a sour little smile, and the metaphor works the same way it does in English.

The chemistry is the same word. is an acid, o acidity, and senacidigi is to neutralise. That the everyday adjective and the laboratory noun share a root is not an accident of Esperanto but an inheritance: chemists named the class of substances after the taste, because tasting things was how the first ones were identified. Vinagro is vinegar, and it is transparently plus - sour wine - which is exactly what French aigre says too.

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This word is taught in chapter 22, lesson 12: acida, leporo, rara and 7 more words.