umidus
Latin
Alternative forms
- hūmidus
Etymology
From ūmeō (“be moist, wet or damp”) + -idus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈuː.mi.dus/, [ˈuː.mɪ.dʊs]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Adjective
ūmidus (feminine ūmida, neuter ūmidum); first/second declension
- moist, humid, damp, dank, wet
- (of a river) formerly liquid, frozen
- (figuratively) watery, weak
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | ūmidus | ūmida | ūmidum | ūmidī | ūmidae | ūmida | |
| Genitive | ūmidī | ūmidae | ūmidī | ūmidōrum | ūmidārum | ūmidōrum | |
| Dative | ūmidō | ūmidae | ūmidō | ūmidīs | ūmidīs | ūmidīs | |
| Accusative | ūmidum | ūmidam | ūmidum | ūmidōs | ūmidās | ūmida | |
| Ablative | ūmidō | ūmidā | ūmidō | ūmidīs | ūmidīs | ūmidīs | |
| Vocative | ūmide | ūmida | ūmidum | ūmidī | ūmidae | ūmida | |
Derived terms
- hūmiditās / ūmiditās
- ūmidē
- ūmidulus
- ūmidum
Related terms
- ūmectus
- ūmefaciō
- ūmēscō
Descendants
- Asturian: húmidu
- Catalan: humit
- English: humid
- French: humide
- Friulian: umid, umit
- Galician: húmido
- Italian: umido
- Portuguese: húmido, úmido
- Romanian: umed
- Spanish: húmedo
- Swedish: humid
- Venetian: ùmedo
References
- umidus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- umidus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- umidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette