Apricus, pen. prod. Adiectinum, duobus modis dicitur: aliter enim apricum locum dicimus, aliter hominem aut auem. Apricus locus. Virg.Sunnie: open vpon the sunne: warme with the sunne.Apricus homo. Persius. Desirous to beake him selfe in the sunne.Apricus dies. Colum. A sunnie day.Apricos necte flores. Horat. Aprica littora. Mart. Pratum apricum. Horat. Montium recessus aprici. Plin. Regio aprica. Plin. Apricæterræ.Virg. In apricum proferre. Horat. To bring abroad.Spatiari in aprico. Horat. To walke in the sunne. Apricum & Opacum, veluti contraria.Cic.Apricissimo die purgatis domicilijs: Colu.In a very faire sunnie day.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
āprīcus, a, um, adj. [qs. contr. from apericus, from aperio, Doed. Syn. III. p. 170; for the long i, cf. antīcus, postīcus; acc. t oothers, kindr. with old Germ. ābar; mid. Germ. aeber, = dry, warm], orig., lying open, uncovered, or, acc. to the second etymol., warm: Qui tulit aprico frigida castra Lare,
under the open heaven
, Prop. 5, 10, 18, where Müller reads e parvo.—Hence, with esp. ref. to the warmth of the sun, exposed to the sun or to the warmth of the sun, open to the sun, sunny.I. A.. Of places (class. in prose and poetry): loci ... opaci an aprici, Cic. Part. Or. 10 fin.: hortus, id. Fam. 16, 18 (perh. not elsewhere in Cic.): colles, Liv. 21, 37: campus, Hor. C. 1, 8, 3; id. A. P. 162: rura, id. C. 3, 18, 2: agger, id. S. 1, 8, 15 et saep.—B.Subst.: āprīcum, i, n., a sunny spot, place.1.Lit.: buxus amat aprica, Plin. 16, 16, 28, 71: aprica Alpium, id. 21, 7, 20, 43.—And 2.Trop.: in apricum proferre,
to bring to light
, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 24 (= in apertum, Cruq.).—C.Poet., of other objects exposed to the sun, delighting or growing in the sunshine: arbor, Ov. M. 4, 331: mergi,
basking in the sun
, Verg. A. 5, 128: flores, Hor. C. 1, 26, 7: senes, Pers. 5, 179 al.—II.Transf.A.Clear, pure (only in Col.): caeli status, Col. 11, 3, 27: apricissimus dies, id. 9, 14, 13.—B.Coming from the sunny quarter, i.e. from the south: flatus,