“cutting” in Latin

segmen (a piece cut off from a whole): resegmen (e.g., chartae, after Plin., 13, 12, 23, resegmen papyri, of paper): scobis or scobs (of wood, metal, by sawing, filing, boring, etc.): recisamentum: ramentum: plur., ramenta (chips, Vid: CHIP): assula (for burning; e.g., of a pine-tree, schidia or assula taedae): propago: tradux: mergus (layer of a vine): sarmentum (any thin branch of a tree or plant, that has been cut, either green or dry, Cic., Cat., Maj., 15, 52; plur., sarmenta, are dry cuttings of which fagots are made; e.g., ligna et sarmenta circumdare, Cic.; sarmenta arida, Liv., ; fasces sarmentorum, id.): tale: taleola (cutting of trees; i. e., pieces that are cut at both ends to be planted in the ground): malleolus (new shoot; e.g., of the vine, cut off for planting, with a bit of the old wood on each side of it, in the shape of a mallet): clava: clavola or clavula (diminutive of clava, a slip or twig for planting, Varr., R.R., 1, 40, 4).

acutus (sharp, or that makes a painful impression): acer (penetrating): acerbus (figuratively, bitter, of words, etc.): mordens: mordax (biting): aculeatus (litterally, pricking, mortifying): Cutting cold, gelu acutum (of cold weather; also praegelidum frigus): a cutting wind, ventus perfrigidus; ventus nivalis (inasmuch as it brings snow): a cutting or intense pain, dolor acer or acerrimus: cutting words, verborum aculei: a cutting verse, carmen mordax: a cutting letter, or a letter containing cutting or bitter remarks or words, litterae aculeatae: cutting jests, asperiores facetiae: witty in a cutting manner, cum aculeo aliquo facetus: the cutting nature of wit or humour, acerbitas salis: in a cutting manner, mordaciter (late); acerbe (IMPROP., bitterly, e.g., dicere).