aridus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ārdus (less common, contracted form)
Etymology
[edit]From āreō (“I am dry, I am parched”) + -idus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈaː.ri.dus/, [ˈäːrɪd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ri.dus/, [ˈäːrid̪us]
Adjective
[edit]āridus (feminine ārida, neuter āridum, superlative āridissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- dry, parched, withered, arid
- Montes aridi sterilesque.
- Parched and barren mountains.
- Arida ligna.
- Dry wood.
- Terra arida et sicca.
- An arid and dry ground.
- Montes aridi sterilesque.
- (of things) dry, lean, meagre, shrivelled; withered (e.g. from disease)
- Uvis aridior puella passis.[1]
- A damsel drier than the raisin'd grape.
- Vita horrida atque arida.
- Rough and meagre life.
- Uvis aridior puella passis.[1]
- (rhetorical style, orators) uninspired, jejune, spiritless
- Aridi magistri.
- Uninspired teachers.
- Sicci omnino atque aridi pueri.
- Sapless lads, altogether, and dry.
- (slang) avaricious, someone greedy or stingy (confer the tongue-in-cheek term Argentiexterebronides (“the name of one who is skilled in extorting money; a sponger”))
Usage notes
[edit]- Sometimes used of thirst; sitis arida guttor urit (“thirst unquenched still burns all his throat”) and os aridum habens (“having a dry mouth”)
- Of a fever meaning to "cause thirst"; used with febris (“fever”) and morbus (“sickness, illness”)
- Of color; arbor folio convoluto, arido colore.
- Also used of cracking or snapping sound, as when dry wood is broken; aridus sonus and aridus fragor both refer to a dry, grating, half-crackling sound, as in aridus altis Montibus incipit audiri fragor (“a dry crackling noise begins to be heard in the high mountain forest”)
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | āridus | ārida | āridum | āridī | āridae | ārida | |
genitive | āridī | āridae | āridī | āridōrum | āridārum | āridōrum | |
dative | āridō | āridae | āridō | āridīs | |||
accusative | āridum | āridam | āridum | āridōs | āridās | ārida | |
ablative | āridō | āridā | āridō | āridīs | |||
vocative | āride | ārida | āridum | āridī | āridae | ārida |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “aridus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aridus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aridus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the dry, lifeless style: oratio exilis, ieiuna, arida, exsanguis
- to haul up a boat: navem subducere (in aridum)
- the dry, lifeless style: oratio exilis, ieiuna, arida, exsanguis
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eHs-
- Latin terms suffixed with -idus
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Latin terms with usage examples
- Latin slang
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook