aridus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === ārdus (less common, contracted form) === Etymology === From āreō (“I am dry, I am parched”) +‎ -idus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈaː.rɪ.dʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.ri.dus] === Adjective === āridus (feminine ārida, neuter āridum, superlative āridissimus); first/second-declension adjective dry, parched, withered, arid (used substantively) (of things) dry, lean, meagre, shrivelled; withered (e.g. from disease) Uvis aridior puella passis.[1] A damsel drier than the raisin'd grape. (rhetorical style, orators) uninspired, jejune, spiritless (slang) avaricious, someone greedy or stingy (confer the tongue-in-cheek term Argentiexterebronides (“the name of one who is skilled in extorting money; a sponger”)) ==== Usage notes ==== Sometimes used of thirst; sitis arida guttor urit (“thirst unquenched still burns all his throat”) and os aridum habens (“having a dry mouth”) Of a fever meaning to "cause thirst"; used with febris (“fever”) and morbus (“sickness, illness”) Of color; arbor folio convoluto, arido colore. Also used of cracking or snapping sound, as when dry wood is broken; aridus sonus and aridus fragor both refer to a dry, grating, half-crackling sound, as in aridus altis Montibus incipit audiri fragor (“a dry crackling noise begins to be heard in the high mountain forest”) ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “aridus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aridus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “aridus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.