The corpus record — Latin

fetidus

fetidus · adj

that has an ill smell

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Where it lives

Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

fētĭdus — Lewis & Short

fētĭdus (faet-, foet-), a, um, adj.feteo.

I Prop., that has an ill smell, stinking, fetid: anima fetida, Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 13; cf.: cum isto ore fetido teterrimam nobis popinam inhalasses, Cic. Pis. 6, 13: corpus, Suet. Ner. 51: pisces, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 33.—Comp.: dejectiones, Cels. 3, 2.—

II Fig., foul, disgusting: libido, Prud. stef. 2, 245.—Of heresy (sup.): fetidissimus fons, Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 7, 11 fin.

In the wild

fetidos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.7.p1
fetida Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1160
fetidum Cato, De agri cultura 3
fetido Suetonius, Nero 51.1
fetidum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.7.3
fetidae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.3.p2

Where it came from

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