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“sagacious” in Latin
sagāxof quick perception, having acute senses; keen-scented; intellectually quick, keen, acute, shrewd, sagacious; magicalacuōto make pointed, sharpen, whet; to exercise, practice, improve; to spur, stimulate, arouseācersharp, sour, bitter, pungent; keen, sharp, acute, sagacious; energetic, active, vigoroussubtīlisfine, thin, slender; precise, accurate, keen; plain, unadorned, simplearguōto clarify, to make plain; to assert, declare, prove, show; to reprove, accuse, charge with; to blame, censureperspicāxsharp-sighted, quick-sighted, perspicaciousperacūtusvery sharp or penetratingperācervery sharp
The English word sagacious itself goes back to Latin sāgiō, through sagāx.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sagacious
sagax (often with ad aliquid; e.g., ad haec pericula perspicienda, Planc. ap. Cic.): acutus: acer: subtilis: argutus: perspicax: plenus rationis et consilii (Cic.). Very sagacious, peracutus: peracer [SYN. in ACUTE]: a sagacious mind, sagax ac bona mens (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sagacious?
- The usual Latin words for “sagacious” are sagāx, acuō, ācer; also subtīlis, arguō, perspicāx. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.