Words that come from Proto-Italic akus

400 words across 50 languages descend from Proto-Italic akus — including acute, cute, acutely, acuity, acumen, acuteness, ague, subacute.

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English (100)

Latin (79)

Italian (35)

Spanish (23)

French (21)

Portuguese (21)

Catalan (10)

Romanian (10)

Polish (7)

Tagalog (6)

Finnish (6)

Middle French (5)

Translingual (5)

Galician (5)

Old French (5)

Swedish (4)

Old Portuguese (4)

Middle English (4)

Vulgar Latin (4)

Danish (3)

Chinese (3)

Ido (3)

Esperanto (2)

Ligurian (2)

Occitan (2)

Norman (2)

German (2)

New Latin (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Dutch (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Aromanian (1)

Istriot (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Tetelcingo Nahuatl (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Japanese (1)

Old Irish (1)

Irish (1)

Asturian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Classical Latin (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Northern Puebla Nahuatl (1)

Aragonese (1)

Indonesian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Emilian (1)

Romagnol (1)

Old Catalan (1)