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hirtus

hairy, shaggy

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Where it lives

Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Punica 9 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. hirtus — de Vaan

hirtus 'hairy, shaggy' [adj. o] (Lucil.+) Derivatives: hirsutus 'hairy, rough* (Cic.+). Pit. *xe/irk-to-, *xe/irk-so- 'rough-haired'? These forms may represent *herto-, with dialectal raising of *e in front of rC. They are connected with horreo *to be stiff, which is semantically in order; but since the PIE root was *ghers-, it is unclear how -s- could be lost from a preform *ghers-to- > *hersto-. Alternatively, … — [de Vaan, s.v. hirtus, p. 300]

2. hirtus — Lewis & Short

hirtus, a, um, adj.,

I rough, hairy, shaggy, = dasu/s (mostly post-Aug.; cf. hirsutus, hispidus, pilosus, villosus, setosus).

I Lit.: oves, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 19: hirto corde quosdam homines nasci proditur, Plin. 11, 37, 70, § 185: ora (Scythis), Curt. 4, 13: frons, Sil. 16, 121: toga, Luc. 2, 386; Quint. 12, 10, 47; cf. tunica, Nep. Dat. 3, 2: setae in corpore, Ov. M. 13, 850; cf. comae, Curt. 5, 6 fin.: saxa dumis, Stat. S. 3, 1, 13; cf. saepes, Col. poët. 10, 27; and: ager spinigeris stirpibus, Prud. stef. 11, 120: hirtiora folia, App. Herb. 71: aequor, rough, uneven surface, Prud. stef. 9, 53.—

II Trop., of character, rough, rude, unpolished: non tibi parvum Ingenium, non incultum est et turpiter hirtum, * Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 22: C. Marius hirtus atque horridus, Vell. 2, 11 (cf., of Marius sordidum me et incultis moribus aiunt, Sall. J. 85, 39).

In the wild

hirtae Statius, Silvae 2.3.36
hirta Silius Italicus, Punica 5.313
hirtis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.12.4
hirto Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p31
hirtaque Cornelius Nepos, Datames 3
hirtaeve Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.927

6 of 71 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. hirtus (scan pp. 300-301; entry #764). Root candidates: *herto-, *ghers-, *hersto-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. hirtus (scan p. 320; entry #5056).

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