roscidus Latin · revision 34070

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *h₁rōs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈroːs.kɪ.dʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɔʃ.ʃi.dus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rōscidus''' (feminine rōscida, neuter rōscidum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Varro writes it ''ruscidus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rōs|-idus|t1=dew]], with a ⟨-c-⟩ that Wiktionary explains by analogy with [[mucidus|alt=mūcidus]], [[sucidus|alt=sūcidus]] and [[viscidus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|rōs]] to [[itc-pro|*rōs|t=dew]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁rōs|t=dew, juice]], and compares [[lt|rasà|t=dew]] and [[sa|रस|tr=rása-|t=juice, liquid]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Varro,^(de Vaan 2008) who says that grass wet with dew is then more pleasant to the sheep than at midday.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is wet with dew, dewy, and consisting of dew; also dripping with moisture, as Virgil's rocks wet with streams.^(OLD 2012) As a neuter plural noun it is damp places, which vines hate according to Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012) Of the air it is full of dew, as in Vitruvius, and it is an epithet of the moon and stars, which were thought to bring dew.^(OLD 2012) It also means like dew: in Virgil the hard oaks sweat dewy honey.^(OLD 2012) Columella, Palladius and Propertius use it of dewy soil, sky, twigs and fruit.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of dewy grass.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of dewy air.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of wet rocks and dewy honey.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of damp places.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Wet with dew, [[m|en|dewy]]; consisting of dew.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Dripping with moisture, [[m|en|moist]], wet.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Full of dew (of the air); bringing dew (of the moon and stars).^(OLD 2012)

+ # Like dew.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ros|alt=rōs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}