LAT
acquiro
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Lewis Short
(verb) : ac-quīro (adqu.), sīvi, sītum, 3, quaero
* To add to, to get or acquire (in addition), with ad or dat. (freq. in Cic.).
* Lit.: mihi quidem ipsi, quid est quod ad vitae fructum possit acquiri?Cic. Cat. 3, 12; 2, 8: vides quam omnis gratias non modo retinendas, sed etiam acquirendas putemus,but even new favor is to be acquired,id. Att. 1, 1; Sall. J. 13, 6; and poet.: viresque adquirit eundo, and gains (ever new and greater) strength in her course, Verg. A. 4, 175.
* In gen.
* To get, obtain, procure, secure: quod ad usum vitae pertineat,Cic. Off. 3, 5, 22; id. Fam. 10, 3: famam,Phaedr. 1, 14: moram,Cic. Caecin. 2: vires,Ov. M. 7, 459: adquirere pauca (sc. nova verba),Hor. A. P. 55.
* In later Lat., absol., to acquire or amass riches or money (cf.: quaero, quaestus; abundo, abundantia) [mox adquirendi docet insatiabile votum,Juv. 14, 125]: acquirendi ratio,Quint. 12, 7, 10.
* To add to, to get or acquire (in addition), with ad or dat. (freq. in Cic.).
* Lit.: mihi quidem ipsi, quid est quod ad vitae fructum possit acquiri?Cic. Cat. 3, 12; 2, 8: vides quam omnis gratias non modo retinendas, sed etiam acquirendas putemus,but even new favor is to be acquired,id. Att. 1, 1; Sall. J. 13, 6; and poet.: viresque adquirit eundo, and gains (ever new and greater) strength in her course, Verg. A. 4, 175.
* In gen.
* To get, obtain, procure, secure: quod ad usum vitae pertineat,Cic. Off. 3, 5, 22; id. Fam. 10, 3: famam,Phaedr. 1, 14: moram,Cic. Caecin. 2: vires,Ov. M. 7, 459: adquirere pauca (sc. nova verba),Hor. A. P. 55.
* In later Lat., absol., to acquire or amass riches or money (cf.: quaero, quaestus; abundo, abundantia) [mox adquirendi docet insatiabile votum,Juv. 14, 125]: acquirendi ratio,Quint. 12, 7, 10.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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