rĕ-torrĭdus

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torrĭdus, a, um, adj. [torreo], dry, dried up, parched, torrid.

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.—

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.

ENG ochraceous atilla

ENG pale-billed hornero

ENG Southern grasshopper mouse

NLD zuidelijke sprinkhaanmuis

GER sudliche Grashupfermaus

FRA onychomys du sud

ENG heliotrope-throated hummingbird

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aestŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. [aestus], to be in agilation or in violent commotion, to move to and fro, to rage, to toss, to boil up.

Lit.

Of fire, to rage, burn:

aestuat ut clausis rapidus fornacibus ignis,

as the fire heaves and roars in the closed furnaces, Verg. G. 4, 263:

tectus magis aestuat ignis,

Ov. M. 4, 64.—Hence,

Of the effect of fire, to be warm or hot, to burn, glow; both objectively, I am warm (Fr. je suis chaud), and subjectively, it is warm to me, I feel warm (Fr. j'ai chaud).

Object.: nunc dum occasio est, dum scribilitae aestuant ( while the cakes are warm) occurrite, Plaut. Poen. prol. 43; Verg. G. 1, 107:

torridus aestuat aër,

glows, Prop. 3, 24, 3; Luc. 1, 16. —

Subject., to feel warmth or heat (weaker than sudare, to sweat, and opp. algere, to be cold, to feel cold;

v. Doed. Syn. 3, 89): Lycurgi leges erudiunt juventutem esuriendo, sitiendo, algendo, aestuando,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 14, 34:

ille cum aestuaret, umbram secutus est,

id. Ac. 2, 22:

sub pondere,

Ov. M. 12, 514; Juv. 3, 103.—

Of the undulating, heaving motion of the sea, to rise in waves or billows (cf. aestus):

Maura unda,

Hor. C. 2, 6, 4:

gurges,

Verg. A. 6, 296.—

Of other things, to have an undulating, waving motion, to be tossed, to heave:

in ossibus umor,

Verg. G. 4, 308:

ventis pulsa aestuat arbor,

Lucr. 5, 1097; Gell. 17, 11, 5. —Of an agitated crowd, Prud. 11, 228.—

Trop.

Of the passions, love, desire, envy, jealousy, etc., to burn with desire, to be in violent, passionate excitement, to be agitated or excited, to be inflamed:

quod ubi auditum est, aestuare (hist. inf.) illi, qui dederant pecuniam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 23:

quae cum dies noctesque aestuans agitaret,

Sall. J. 93:

desiderio alicujus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18:

invidiā,

Sall. C. 23:

ingens in corde pudor,

Verg. A. 12, 666:

at rex Odrysius in illa Aestuat,

Ov. M. 6, 490 (cf. uri in id. ib. 7, 22;

and ardere in id,

ib. 9, 724); Mart. 9, 23:

aestuat (Alexander) infelix angusto limite mundi (the figure is derived from the swelling and raging of the sea when confined),

Juv. 10, 169; so Luc. 6, 63.—

Esp. in prose, to waver, to vacillate, to hesitate, to be uncertain or in doubt, to be undecided:

dubitatione,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30: quod petiit, spernit; repetit quod nuper omisit;

Aestuat et vitae disconvenit ordine toto,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 99:

sic anceps inter utramque animus aestuat,

Quint. 10, 7, 33; Suet. Claud. 4:

aestuante rege,

Just. 1, 10.

prēster, ēris, m., = prêstêr [burning].

A fiery whirlwind, which descends in the form of a pillar of fire, a water-spout, sand-spout:

presteras Graici quos ab re nominitarunt, etc.,

Lucr. 6, 424:

turbo ardentior accensusque dum furit, prester vocatur, amburens contacta pariter, et proterens,

Plin. 2, 48, 50, § 133: spiritus cum majore vi torti sunt, fit procella terrestris, et a Graecis prester nomen accepit, App. de Mundo, p. 62 fin. —

A kind of serpent, whose bite causes a burning thirst:

prester quem percusserit, distenditur, enormique corpulentiā necatur extuberatus,

Sol. 27, 32:

torridus prester,

Luc. 9, 791; Plin. 20, 20, 81 § 210; 24, 13, 73, § 117.

rĕ-torrĭdus, a, um, adj., parched up, burned up, dried up (mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic.).

Lit.:

rami platani,

Sen. Ep. 12, 2; 86, 18:

manus Mucii,

id. ib. 66, 51:

retorrida et muscosa prata,

Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 5:

plantae,

Col. 3, 12, 2:

frons,

id. 11, 2, 87:

fructus,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 176:

myrtus,

id. 15, 29, 36, § 121:

(herba) spinis retorrida,

id. 27, 12, 97, § 122:

mus,

dried up, wizen, wrinkled, Phaedr. 4, 2, 27. —

Trop.:

detriti et retorridi ad litterarum disciplinas serius adeunt,

Gell. 15, 30, 1:

vultu gravissimus et retorridus,

i. e. gloomy, morose, Capitol. Max. 6:

Gallicanae mentes,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 58.—

* Adv.: rĕtorrĭdē (acc. to I.), dryly, Plin. 17, 5, 3, § 33.

văpor (ante-class. form văpos, Naev. ap. Non. 487, 10; Lucr. 6, 952; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 13), ōris, m. [Sanscr. kapis, incense; Gr. kapuô, kapnos, smoke; cf. vappa], steam, exhalation, vapor (syn. exhalatio).

In gen.:

aquarum vapores, qui a sole ex agris tepefactis et ex aquis excitantur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118:

aquarum quasi vapor quidam aër habendus est,

id. ib. 2, 10, 27; Lucr. 6, 271:

aquae calidae,

Cels. 7, 7, 10; Scrib. Comp. 20:

terrenus vapor siccus est et fumo similis, qui ventos, tonitrua et fulmina facit: aquarum halitus umidus est et imbres et nives creat,

Sen. Q. N. 2, 12, 4:

nocturnos formidare vapores,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 93: volat vapor ater ad auras. smoke, Verg. A. 7, 466; Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 40; Stat. Th. 10, 110; Sen. Herc. Fur. 911.—

In partic., a warm exhalation, warmth, heat, etc.

Lit.:

(terra semen) tepefactum vapore et compressu suo diffundit,

Cic. Sen. 15, 51: aestifer ignis uti lumen jacit atque vaporem, Lucr. 1, 663:

solis,

id. 1, 1032; 2, 150; 4, 185; 4, 201; 6, 236; Curt. 7, 5, 3;

of the heat of the thunderbolt: inusta vaporis signa,

Lucr. 6, 220:

finditque vaporibus arva (Phoebus),

Ov. M. 3, 152:

siderum,

Hor. Epod. 3, 15:

lentusque carinas Est vapor,

Verg. A. 5, 683; cf. id. ib. 698:

locus torridus et vaporis plenus,

Liv. 5, 48, 1:

vapore foveri,

Cels. 7, 7, 2; 7, 7, 10; 7, 9 fin.; 8, 4; 8, 7; Col. 1, 4, 10; 7, 3, 8 al.—

Trop., warmth, ardor of love:

pectus insanum vapor amorque torret,

Sen. Hippol. 640.

văpor (ante-class. form văpos, Naev. ap. Non. 487, 10; Lucr. 6, 952; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 13), ōris, m. [Sanscr. kapis, incense; Gr. kapuô, kapnos, smoke; cf. vappa], steam, exhalation, vapor (syn. exhalatio).

In gen.:

aquarum vapores, qui a sole ex agris tepefactis et ex aquis excitantur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118:

aquarum quasi vapor quidam aër habendus est,

id. ib. 2, 10, 27; Lucr. 6, 271:

aquae calidae,

Cels. 7, 7, 10; Scrib. Comp. 20:

terrenus vapor siccus est et fumo similis, qui ventos, tonitrua et fulmina facit: aquarum halitus umidus est et imbres et nives creat,

Sen. Q. N. 2, 12, 4:

nocturnos formidare vapores,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 93: volat vapor ater ad auras. smoke, Verg. A. 7, 466; Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 40; Stat. Th. 10, 110; Sen. Herc. Fur. 911.—

In partic., a warm exhalation, warmth, heat, etc.

Lit.:

(terra semen) tepefactum vapore et compressu suo diffundit,

Cic. Sen. 15, 51: aestifer ignis uti lumen jacit atque vaporem, Lucr. 1, 663:

solis,

id. 1, 1032; 2, 150; 4, 185; 4, 201; 6, 236; Curt. 7, 5, 3;

of the heat of the thunderbolt: inusta vaporis signa,

Lucr. 6, 220:

finditque vaporibus arva (Phoebus),

Ov. M. 3, 152:

siderum,

Hor. Epod. 3, 15:

lentusque carinas Est vapor,

Verg. A. 5, 683; cf. id. ib. 698:

locus torridus et vaporis plenus,

Liv. 5, 48, 1:

vapore foveri,

Cels. 7, 7, 2; 7, 7, 10; 7, 9 fin.; 8, 4; 8, 7; Col. 1, 4, 10; 7, 3, 8 al.—

Trop., warmth, ardor of love:

pectus insanum vapor amorque torret,

Sen. Hippol. 640.

vē-grandis, e, adj., not very large, little, small, diminutive (very rare):

oves vegrandes atque imbecillae,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 13:

farra,

Ov. F. 3, 445:

frumentum,

Fest. p. 372: gradus, Plaut. Fragm. ib.—

Very great, = valde grandis, Non. 183, 30:

non idcirco extollitur, nec vitae vegrandi datur, Lucil. ap. Non. l. l. (Sat. 26, 35): homo vegrandi macie torridus,

Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 93 (dub. Zumpt; B. and K. ut grandi).