hirtus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *herztos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰérstos, from *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”), same root as horreo and hordeum.

Pronunciation

Adjective

hirtus (feminine hirta, neuter hirtum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. hairy, shaggy
  2. rough, rude, unpolished

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hirtus hirta hirtum hirtī hirtae hirta
Genitive hirtī hirtae hirtī hirtōrum hirtārum hirtōrum
Dative hirtō hirtō hirtīs
Accusative hirtum hirtam hirtum hirtōs hirtās hirta
Ablative hirtō hirtā hirtō hirtīs
Vocative hirte hirta hirtum hirtī hirtae hirta

Derived terms

Descendants
  • >? Galician: irto
  • >? Portuguese: hirto
  • → Italian: irto

References
  • “hirtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “hirtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “hirtus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 286
  • hirtus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • hirtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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