The corpus record — Latin

paedĭdus

paedĭdus · adj

nasty

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What it meant

paedĭdus — Lewis & Short

paedĭdus, a, um, adj.paedor,

I nasty, filthy, stinking: paedidos sordidos significant atque obsoletos: tractum vocabulum a Graeco, quia pai=des, i. e. pueri, talis sint aetatis, ut nesciant a sordibus abstinere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 222 Müll.: senex, Lucil. ap. Non. 166, 13 (al. perditus, al. arthriticus): paedidissimi servi, Petr. 34, 5.

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.