The corpus record — Latin

vapidus

vapidus · adj

that has emitted steam

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k

What it meant

văpĭdus — Lewis & Short

văpĭdus, a, um, adj.vapor,

I that has emitted steam or vapor, i. e. that has lost its life and spirit, spoiled, flat, vapid.

I Lit.: vinum, Col. 12, 5, 1.—

II Transf., spoiled, bad.

A Lit.: pix, Pers. 5, 148.—

B Trop.: astutam vapido servas sub pectore vulpem, Pers. 5, 117.—Adv.: văpĭdē, poorly, badly, ill: se habere, for male se habere, a favorite expression of Augustus, Suet. Aug. 87.

In the wild

uapide Suetonius, Divus Augustus 87.2
vapido Persius, Saturae 5.117

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.