aridus

āridus adj.with sup.

3 AR-, dry, arid, parched : materies, Cs.: folia: tellus leonum nutrix, H.: nubila, rainless , V.— As subst n., a dry place, dry land : naves in aridum subducere, Cs.: (arbores) humi arido gignuntur, S.— Of feeling, making dry, burning : sitis, O.: febris, V.— Of sound: fragor, a dry, crackling noise , V.— Withered, shrivelled : crura, O.: nates, H.— Meagre, scanty, poor : victus: vita. — Fig., of style, dry, jejune, poor, unadorned : genus sermonis: libri aridissimi, Ta.—Of a man, dry, stingy : pater, T.