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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *herztos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰérstos, from *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”), same root as horreo and hordeum.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hī̆rtus (feminine hī̆rta, neuter hī̆rtum); first/second-declension adjective
- hairy, shaggy
- rough, rude, unpolished
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Charles E. Bennett (1907) “Hidden Quantity”, in The Latin Language – a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, page 59
- ^ 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
Further reading
- “hirtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hirtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hirtus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- hirtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.