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Latin
Etymology
From fēteō (“to stink”) + -idus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fētidus (feminine fētida, neuter fētidum); first/second-declension adjective
- bad-smelling, foul, stinking
- foul, disgusting
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “fetidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fetidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fetidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.