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Latin
Etymology
From scabō + -idus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
scabidus (feminine scabida, neuter scabidum); first/second-declension adjective
- (post-classical, dis legomenon) scabby, mangy, itchy
- Synonyms: scaber, scabiōsus
c. 400 CE,
Marcellus Empiricus,
De medicamentis 8.137:
- ad cicātrīcem vel plumbum extenuandum et aspritūdinem prūrīginemque oculōrum pūrgandam et ūmōrem siccandum et ad scabrās ac scabidās palpebrās atque alia oculōrum vitia ūnum hoc remedium vel praecipuum est:
c. 400 CE,
Marcellus Empiricus,
De medicamentis 19.46:
- ad genās scabrās et scabidās et veterēs cicātrīcēs remedium sīc:
c. 160 CE – c. 225 CE,
Tertullian,
De anima 38.2:
- ab hīs autem annīs et suffūsior et vestītior sexus est, et concupīscentia oculīs arbitris ūtitur et commūnicat placitum et intellegit quae sint et fīnēs suōs ad īnstar fīculneae contāgiōnis prūrīgine accingit et hominem dē paradīsō integritātis ēdūcit, exinde scabida etiam in cēterās culpās et dēlinquendī nōn nātūrālēs, cum jam nōn ex īnstitūtō nātūrae, sed ex vitiō.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- scabidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- scabidus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “scabidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press