“dry” in Latin

siccus (not wet, dry; presupposes a previous moist state; opposed to madidus, madefactus; e.g., eye, wind, weather, season; hence, figuratively, without ornament, etc., of a speech): siccaneus (of a dry nature or quality, e.g., a meadow, pratum; place, locus, post-Augustan): aridus (of things which, from an entire want of moisture, are capable of, fit for burning; opposed to humidus, wet; succosus, full of sap, etc.; e.g., ligna; arbor; folia; hence, FIG. = containing little matter, jejune; void of spirit, of persons and things; opposed to copiosus; e.g., a teacher, an orator, speech, writing). (The words are found in this connection and order.) exsiccatus atque aridus (dried up and withered): siticulosus: sitiens (PROP., longing, thirsting for moisture): torridus (opposed to uvidus; dried up from external heat, aridus being from internal heat or dryness; e.g., a fountain, fons): exsuccus (PROP.; without juice or sap): jejunus (figuratively; dry, jejune; without spirit, of things and persons; opposed to plenus, copiosus, e.g., things, materials, subject for a speech, etc., res; oratio; orator; scriptor). (The words are found in this connection and order.) jejunus et aridus (e.g., tale, style, delivery, narratio, traditio): exilis (figuratively, meagre, lean, containing little matter; e.g., oratio): frigidus (figuratively, frosty, feeble, of persons and things; e.g., orator; verba; jocus; negotia): austerus (grave and dry, severe, opposed to comis, jucundus, of persons and things): dry (= not giving any milk), *sicca or lac non praebens: very dry, peraridus; siccatus in ariditatem: a dry throat, fauces siecae or aridae: dry bread, panis siccus (not soaked in anything; not eaten with anything to it, as wine or any other drink; Vid: Hard., Plin., 22, 25, 68): dry food or victuals, victus aridus (containing little nutriment); viclus tenuis (scanty): a dry joke, *jocus serio vultu prolatus: to eat dry bread, panem siccum or *sine opsonio edere: a dry style of painting, *dura pingendi ratio: dry places, siccanea (sc. loca); siticulosa (sc. loca); sitientia (sc. loca): a dry year, annus siccus: a very dry year, siccitate insignis annus; annus, quo siccitatibus laboratur: dry weather, siccitas; siccitates (lasting or continuing; [Vid: Herz., Caes., B.G., 4, 16). The dry land, siccum (that was wet or inundated before; e.g., to stand or remain on dry land, in sicco desistere, of water; Vid: Liv., 1, 4); aridum (dry land, continent, where there is no water, e.g., naves in aridum subducere, Caes., B.G., 4, 29; ex arido tela conjicere, Caes. B.G., 4, 24): in a dry way or manner, sicce; jejune; exiliter; frigide [SYN. above]: graviter et severe: austere: to be dry (PROP.), arere; (figuratively) nullam habere sermonis comitatem: to make dry [Vid: To DRY]: to become dry, arescere (Cic.): exsiccescere (Vitr.): exarescere (e.g., fauces siti, Cic.): arefieri (Plin.): perarescere (to become thoroughly dry).

To free from moisture, siccare (Ov.); exsiccare (Cic.); desiccare (Plin.); assiccare (Col.): arefacere (Plin.); siccitatem inferre: torrefacere (to make dry by external heat, to parch).

To wipe away moisture, tergere; detergere; extergere (Cic.); abstergere (Ov.).

To drain, exhaurire: exinanire: vacuum facere: exsiccare.

Dry tip your tears, parcite lacrymis. To dry one’s tears, lacrimas abstergere.

INTRANS., siccescere: exsiccescere: siccari: exsiccari: arescere: arefieri: exarescere: exarefieri (Plin.); arere (Plaut.) [SYN. of siccus, aridus, in DRY, adjective]. To begin to dry, subarescere: to dry thoroughly, assiccescere (Col. 12, 9, 1): perarescere (quite through). To spread out grass to dry, herbam in sole exponere, ut siccescat (Col. 12, 28, 1). To DRY UP, TRANS., extorrere; exsiccare; urere, adurere (of the heat of the sun). INTRANS., Same verbs as “to DRY” intrans.: inarescere (Cic.); penitus siccari (Col.). The rivers dried up, evanuerunt et exaruerunt amnes (Plin.). Nothing dries up sooner than tears, nihil citius quam lacrima arescit (Cic.), inarescit (Quint.): To dry up before it is ripe, inarescere ante maturitatem (Col. 4, 24, 3) :