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“dryness” in Latin
siccitāsdryness; droughtāriditāsdryness, drought, aridityāritūdōdryness, aridity, droughtieiūnitāshunger, emptiness; meagerness, povertyexīlitāsthinness, meagreness, weakness, poornessāridusdry, parched, withered, arid; dry, lean, meagre, shrivelled; withered (e.g. from disease); uninspired, jejune, spiritles
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dryness
siccitas (PROP.; then, also, figuratively, e.g., speech): ariditas: aritudo (PROP., drought, the former as quality, the latter as lasting state): jejunitas: exilitas (figuratively, jejuneness, meagreness, insipidness; e.g., of a speech): dryness in one’s throat, fauces siccae or aridae: dryness of the season, caelum siccum; siccitas; siccitates (if lasting): this has been a season of unusual dryness, siccitate insignis annus fuit: the season was one of unusual dryness, siccitatibus eo anno laboratum est: the dryness of a discourse, orationis exilitas.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dryness?
- The usual Latin words for “dryness” are siccitās, āriditās, āritūdō; also ieiūnitās, exīlitās, āridus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.