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Latin
Etymology
From hī̆rsus (variant of hī̆rtus) + -ūtus (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
hī̆rsūtus (feminine hī̆rsūta, neuter hī̆rsūtum, comparative hī̆rsūtior, superlative hī̆rsūtissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- rough, shaggy, bristly, prickly
- hairy, hirsute
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “hirsutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hirsutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “hirtus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 286
- hirsutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.