Lewis & Short

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ăcor, ōris, m. [aceo], a sour taste, sourness.

  1. I. Lit., Col. 3, 21, 5; 7, 8, 1; Plin. 11, 41, 96; 18, 11, 26; of meat, Quint. 9, 3, 27.
  2. II. Fig. hortor ut jucundissimum genus vitae nonnullis interdum quasi acoribus condias, i. e. excitements, Plin. Ep. 7, 3 fin.

† ăcŏrus, i, f., and ăcŏrum, i, n., = ἄκορος and ἄκορον, an aromatic plant, conjectured by some to be our sweet-flag or calamus, Plin. 25, 13, 100, § 157 sq.; 26, 5, 15, § 28; Cels. 3, 21; 2, 23 al. In the form acoros, i, f., App. Herb. 6.