Acquiro, acquîris, pen. prod. acquisíni, acquisîtum, pen. prod. acquirere. Ex ad, & quæro. To get: to obtaine a thing sought for: to procure. Acquirere amicos. Cic.To get, or procure.Ad honorem & gloriam aliquid acquirere.Cic.To increase his honour and glorie.Beneuolentiam acquirere. Quint. To procure.Dignitatem.Cic. Fidem. Cic. Gratias. Cic.Moram ad condemnandum.Cic. Opes. Ouid.Acquisita extrinsecus ope egere. Quin. Studia vulgi.Tacit. Vires. Virgil. Acquirere de malis etiam rebus dicitur: vt Acquirere inimicitias.Plaut. Acquiri pro Augeri vel conciliari. Plin. Quo genere & vino odorem acquiri putant. To be procured.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ac-quīro (adqu.), sīvi, sītum, 3, v. a. [quaero], to add to, to get or acquire (in addition), with ad or dat. (freq. in Cic.). I.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.—II. In gen. A.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.—B. 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.
