sudus

See also: sūdus

Latin

Either from:

Proto-Indo-European *h₂sus-d(h)o-, from *h₂sews- (“dry”).^[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek αὖος (aûos), Russian сухо́й (suxój), Lithuanian saũsas and English sere, seer, sorrel; or,
(according to Festus^[2]) *sēūdum, from sē- +‎ ūdus.

sūdus (feminine sūda, neuter sūdum); first/second-declension adjective

(rare) dry
Synonyms: siccus, āridus
- c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Apologia sive pro se de magia 16:
  Videturne uobis debere philosophia haec omnia uestigare et inquirere et cuncta specula uel uda uel suda [soli] uidere?
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(of weather) bright, clear
Synonym: serēnus
- c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.77:
  Ergo, ubi [apes] ver nactae sudum camposque patentes
  Erumpunt portis; […]
  And so, when met again with bright springtide and open fields, they [the bees] break free from their hive; […]

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	sūdus	sūda	sūdum	sūdī	sūdae	sūda
genitive	sūdī	sūdae	sūdī	sūdōrum	sūdārum	sūdōrum
dative	sūdō	sūdae	sūdō	sūdīs
accusative	sūdum	sūdam	sūdum	sūdōs	sūdās	sūda
ablative	sūdō	sūdā	sūdō	sūdīs
vocative	sūde	sūda	sūdum	sūdī	sūdae	sūda

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sūdus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 596
^ De Verborum Significatu: “sudum siccum quasi seudum id est sine udo”

“sudus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sudus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"sudus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
sudus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN