hispidus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”), same root as horreo and hordeum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Suffix unexplained. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈhɪs.pɪ.dʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈis.pi.dus] === Adjective === hispidus (feminine hispida, neuter hispidum); first/second-declension adjective rough, shaggy, hairy, bristly, prickly ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== hispidulus ==== Descendants ==== Italian: ispido === References === “hispidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “hispidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “hispidus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.