The corpus record — Latin

mădĭdo

mădĭdo · v. a

to make wet

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What it meant

mădĭdo — Lewis & Short

mădĭdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.madidus,

I to make wet or moist, to wet, moisten (post-class.).

I In gen.

A Act.: proluvie linerent et madidarent se suā, Arn. 2, 70: madidari ex imbribus arva, id. 1, 3: madidatae spongiae, App. M. 8, p. 210, 6.—

B Neutr., to be wet: ille novo madidantes nectare pennas concutit, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 88.—

II In partic., to make drunk, intoxicate: mero multo madidari, Arn. 5, 163: injecisse madidatis vincula, id. 5 init.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.