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Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
arida f sg
- feminine singular of arido
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
Ellipsis of ārida terra (“dry land”).
Noun
ārida f (genitive āridae); first declension
- (Late Latin) dry land
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Jonah.1.9:
- Et dixit ad eos: Hebraeus ego sum, et Dominum Deum caeli ego timeo, qui fecit mare et aridam.
- And he said to them: I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of Heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Etymology 2
Adjective
ārida
- inflection of āridus:
- feminine nominative/vocative singular
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Adjective
āridā
- feminine ablative singular of āridus
References
- arida in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “ārida”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 22
- arida in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016