crūdus, a, um, adj. [root kru-, of Gr. κρύος; cf. cruor, crudelis], bloody, bleeding, trickling with blood, etc.
I Prop. (so rare): vulnus, Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 11: vulnera, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 19; id. P. 1, 3, 16.—
II Transf.
A Of food, raw, not cooked : quid tu curas, utrum crudum an coctum edim? Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 15: exta, Liv. 29, 27, 5: carnem mandere, Suet. Ner. 37.—So also of undigested food: pavo, Juv. 1, 143; cf. trop.: lectio non cruda sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta, Quint. 10, 1, 19; and, alvus, Cato R. R. 125: qui crudum ructat, i. e. when undigested food rises in the stomach , Cels. 1, 2; v. ructo.— Transf., of persons suffering from indigestion , etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23; Quint. 11, 3, 27; Hor. S. 1, 5, 49; id. Ep. 1, 6, 61: crudior, Cic. Clu. 60, 168; cf. cruditas; so, bos, Hor. Epod. 8, 6 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, in a pun, Mart. 3, 13, 3 sq.—
B In gen., of all physical or moral crudeness, immaturity, roughness, etc.
1 Lit.
a Unripe, immature, crude : poma ex arboribus, cruda si sunt, vix evelluntur, si matura et cocta, decidunt, Cic. Sen. 19, 71: pruna (opp. maturissima), Col. 12, 10, 3: muria (opp. matura), id. 12, 6, 2 al.: palmes, Luc. 4, 317 (viridis, Schol.); of an abscess, not mature , Cels. 5, 28, 11: puella, Mart. 8, 64, 11; cf. Hor. C. 3, 11, 12: funera nepotis, premature, early , Stat. Th. 9, 391; cf. id. Achill. 1, 478: amor, yet young, fresh , id. Th. 2, 341; cf.: crudum adhuc servitium, Tac. A. 1, 8 fin. : adhuc studia, Petr. 4: crudi sine viribus anni, Sil. 12, 348: juventus, not yet armed , id. 3, 302; Claud. Cons. Hon. 3, 42.—
β Opp. to age, and the weakness arising from age, fresh, vigorous : jam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus, Verg. A. 6, 304; imitated by Tac.: quibus cruda ac viridis senectus, Tac. Agr. 29: cf. meus, Sil. 5, 569.—
b Unprepared, immature, raw, crude : crudum et immotum solum, Col. 2, 2, 25; cf. Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 179: pix, Col. 12, 20, 6: corium, Varr. L. L. 5, § 116 Müll.; for which, poet., taurus, Val. Fl. 4, 250; and, caestus, made of raw hide, undressed leather , Verg. A. 5, 69: rudis cortice crudo hasta, id. ib. 9, 743.—Of verses, unpolished, rude : junctura addita crudis (numeris), Pers. 1, 92 (cf.: si forte aliquid decoctius audis, id. 1, 125).—Of the voice, rough, hoarse : quia crudus fuerit, Cic. de Or. 1, 27, 125.—
2 Trop.
a Raw, not prepared or matured : ut cibos mansos ac prope liquefactos demittimus, quo facilius digerantur, ita lectio non cruda, sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta memoriae tradatur, Quint. 10, 1, 19.—
b Rough, unfeeling, cruel, merciless (poet.).
α Of personal subjects: dicat me Crudum virum esse, Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 14; id. Poen. 5, 2, 148; Ov. M. 4, 240: Getae, id. Tr. 5, 3, 8: cena, crude Thyesta, tua, Mart. 4, 49, 4: crudus et leti artifex, Sen. Hippol. 1220.—More freq.,
β Of things as subjects: bella, Ov. Am. 3, 8, 58: ensis, Verg. A. 10, 682; cf. Sil. 7, 113; Stat. Th. 10, 342: tyrannis, Juv. 8, 223: crudissimum pistrinum, most rude, uncultivated , Cassius ap. Suet. Aug. 4.—Adv. not in use.