ardus
Latin
Alternative spellings
- āridus (more common, original form)
Etymology
Contracted from the synonymous term (deprecated template usage) āridus originally from the verb (deprecated template usage) āreo, akin to (deprecated template usage) ārdeō. Confer the term (deprecated template usage) arfacio which is contracted from the synonymous term (deprecated template usage) ārefacio.
Adjective
- dry, parched, withered, arid
- Montes aridi sterilesque.
- Parched and barren mountains.
- Arida ligna.
- Dry wood.
- Terra arida et sicca.
- An arid and dry ground.
- Montes aridi sterilesque.
- (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "of things" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. dry, lean, meagre, shrivelled; withered (e.g. from disease)
- Uvis aridior puella passis.[1]
- A damsel drier than the raisin'd grape.
- Vita horrida atque arida.
- Rough and meagre life.
- Uvis aridior puella passis.[1]
- Template:italbrac uninspired, jejune, spiritless
- Aridi magistri.
- Uninspired teachers.
- Sicci omnino atque aridi pueri.
- Sapless lads, altogether, and dry.
- Aridi magistri.
- (deprecated template usage) (slang) avaricious, someone greedy or stingy (confer the tongue-in-cheek term (deprecated template usage) Argentiexterebronides)