hirsutus
οὕς ὁ Θεός συνέζευξεν, ἄνθρωπος μή χωριζέτω → what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder | what therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder
Latin > English
hirsutus hirsuta, hirsutum ADJ :: rough, shaggy, hairy, bristly, prickly; rude
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
hirsūtus: a, um, adj. primary form HIRSUS, a variation of hirtus,
I rough, shaggy, bristly, prickly, hirsute = δασύς.
I Lit. (class.; syn. hirtus, pilosus, villosus): quarum (animantium) aliae villis vestitae, aliae spinis hirsutae, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121; Col. 7, 2, 6: pectus Herculis, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 49: crura genaeque, Mart. 10, 65, 9: supercilium, Verg. E. 8, 34: et glacialis Hiems canos hirsuta capillos, Ov. M. 2, 30: barba, id. ib. 13, 766: capilli, id. H. 9, 63: juba (galeae), Prop. 4 (5), 10, 20: vellera (leonis) setis, Ov. F. 2, 339: castaneae, Verg. E. 7, 53; cf.: frondes, id. G. 3, 231: vepres, id. ib. 3, 444: rubi, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 28: folia hirsutiora, Plin. 22, 22, 33, § 75.—Poet., to designate the people of the olden time (when the hair of the head and beard was left untrimmed), like intonsus and incomptus, Sil. 13, 812; Mart. 9, 48, 2.—*
II Trop., rude, unpolished: sumpserit Annales: nihil est hirsutius illis, Ov. Tr. 2, 259.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
hirsūtus,¹¹ a, um (hirtus),
1 hérissé : Cic. Nat. 2, 121
2 hirsute : Ov. M. 13, 766 || [fig.] hirsutæ imagines Mart. 9, 48, 2, portraits d’hommes hirsutes, c.-à-d. portraits d’hommes d’autrefois ; nihil est hirsutius Ov. Tr. 2, 1, 259, il n’y a rien de plus grossier
3 [t. de botan.] avec des piquants, hirsuteux : Plin. 22, 75.
Latin > German (Georges)
hīrsūtus, a, um (Nbf. v. hīrtus), struppig, rauh, stachelig, I) eig.: a) v. Lebl.: supercilium, Verg.: comae, Ov. u. Curt.: crines, Ov.: hirsuta setis leonis vellera, Ov.: hirsuta barbis cutis, Prud.: hirsuti serrae dentes, Greg. Tur.: h. castaneae, Verg.: folia, Ps. Apul. herb.: folia hirsutiora, Plin. – poet., imagines, Bilder alter Römer, die die Verfeinerungen noch nicht kannten, Ov. – b) v. leb. Wesen: aliae (animantium) villis vestitae, aliae spinis hirsutae, Cic.: feminae toto corpore hirsutae, Mela: capillo raro, hirsutus cetera (sonst), Suet.: ferae, leo, canis, Ov.: Hiems canos hirsuta capillos, mit struppigem Weißhaar, Ov. – II) übtr.: rauh, schmucklos, Getae, Ov. ex Pont. 3, 5, 6: nihil est hirsutius illis (annalibus), Ov. trist. 2, 259.
