aridus

Latin

adj
Definitions
  • dry, parched, withered, arid
  • (of things) dry, lean, meagre, shrivelled; withered (e.g. from disease)
  • rhetorical style 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))

Etymology

Suffix from Latin āreō (I am dry, I am parched) root from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (burn, ashes, hearth, glow, be become dry, be dry).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₂eHs-

Gloss

burn, ashes, hearth, glow, be become dry, be dry

Concept
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The body

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