The corpus record — Latin

torridus

torridus · adj

dry

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Where it lives

Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Carmina 4 · 1.78/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Pharsalia 3 · 0.59/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

torrĭdus — Lewis & Short

torrĭdus, a, um, adj.torreo,

I dry, dried up, parched, torrid.

I Lit.: tellus, Lucr. 5, 1220; Sil. 12, 372; cf.: campi siccitate, Liv. 22, 43, 10: sal, Col. 7, 5, 8; 7, 8, 4: farra, Ov. F. 2, 24: fontes rivique, dried up, Liv. 4, 30, 7: aër, Prop. 2, 28, 3; cf. aestas, Verg. E. 7, 48: zona ab igni, id. G. 1, 234: homo vegrandi macie torridus, dried or shrivelled up, * Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 93: color sole, embrowned, Plin. 12, 20, 43, § 98: vox, dry, hoarse, Calp. Ecl. 3, 59: ora, Luc. 4, 239.—

II Transf., of cold (cf. torreo, II.): pecora jumentaque torrida frigore, pinched, nipped, Liv. 21, 32, 7: membra torrida gelu, id. 21, 40, 9: hiems, biting, Calp. Ecl. 5, 107.

In the wild

torrida Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1220
torridus Propertius, Elegiae 2.28a.5
torrida Propertius, Elegiae 3.13.51
torrida Lucan, Pharsalia 4.239
torridus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.145
torrida Vergil, Georgicon 1.234

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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