acersecomes

acersecomes

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀκερσεκόμης (akersekómēs, “with unshorn hair, young”), from ἀ (a, “un-”) + κερσ- (kers-), Epic aorist stem of κείρω (keírō, “shear”) + κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

Noun

acersecomēs m (hapax)

1. a boy or man whose hair has not been cut; a young man, youth
   • Juvenal, Satire 8.127, 128, 131:

     si tibi sancta cohors comitum, si nemo tribunal
     vendit acersecomes, si nullum in coniuge crimen
     […]
     tum licet a Pico numeres genus […]

     If your whole staff be incorruptible; if no long-haired youth sells your judgments; if your wife be blameless; […] then you may trace back your race to Picus […]

Declension

The term is attested only in the nominative. Lewis and Short give ăcersĕcŏmēs, ae, m..

References

• ăcersĕcŏmēs in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press