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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
sūdus (feminine sūda, neuter sūdum); first/second-declension adjective
- (rare) dry
- Synonyms: siccus, āridus
c. 125 CE – 180 CE,
Apuleius,
Apologia sive pro se de magia 16:
- Videturne uobis debere philosophia haec omnia uestigare et inquirere et cuncta specula uel uda uel suda uidere?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (of weather) bright, clear
- Synonym: serēnus
c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE,
Virgil,
Georgics 4.77:
- Ergo, ubi ver nactae sudum camposque patentes
Erumpunt portis; - And so, when met again with bright springtide and open fields, they break free from their hive;
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sūdus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 596
- ^ De Verborum Significatu: “sudum siccum quasi seudum id est sine udo”
Further Reading
- “sudus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sudus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "sudus", 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)
- sudus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN