Crudus, Adiectiuum. Raw: fresh, or new made: not ripe: vndigested: hard: fierce: crnell: terrible. vt Crudum vulnus. Ouid.Plin. iun.A freshe and greene wound. Crudum.Raw: not concoct.Aluus cruda. Cato. An excrement or stoole of matter vudigested.Cibi crudi. Iuuenal. Meates rawe.Homo crudus.Cic.He that hath an ill stomacke to digest his meate. Crudus. Crudelis. Senec.Cruell: terrible.Cæstus crudus, pro duro, vel crudeli.Virg. Cortex crudus.Virg.A greene barke.Ensis crudus, pro crudeli vel cruento.Virg.Cruell: terrible: blouddie.Equa cruda marito proteruo. Horat. A mare that will not receyue the horse.Exordia cruda.Stat. Fatuin crudum. Sil. Honor crudus.Stat. Indoles cruda. Claud. Iuuentus cruda. Sil. Mens cruda. Sil. Fresh and liuely courage.Nomen crudum Marte viri. Sil. Poma cruda.Cic.Vntipe fruite.Prælia cruda.Stat. Robur crudum. Stat.Rudimenta cruda.Stat.Saxum crudum.Val. Flac.A harde rocke.Viridis & cruda senectus.Virg.Seruitium crudum.Tacit.Solum crudum & immotum. Columel. A balke, or piece of grounde not cast vp with the plough in earing.Sudores crudi.Stat.Tautus crudus.Val. Flac.The harde hide of a bull.Terra cruda. Lucan. Hard earth with grasse not cast vp.Vellus crudum.Val. Flac.A fell not tanned.Virago cruda.Stat. Virginitas cruda. Claud. Ructare curdum. Celsus. To belch rawly.Crúditas pen. cor. huius crudiratis. Cic.Cruditie: rawnesse of stomacke: ill digestion.Substat cruditas. Celsus. Contrabere cruditatÊ. Quint.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
crūdus, a, um, adj. [root kru-, of Gr. kru/os; cf. cruor, crudelis], bloody, bleeding, trickling with blood, etc. I. Prop. (so rare): vulnus, Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 11: vulnera, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 19; id. P. 1, 3, 16.—II.Transf.A. Of food, raw, not cooked: quid tu curas, utrum crudum an coctum edim? Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 15: exta, Liv. 29, 27, 5: carnem mandere, Suet. Ner. 37.—So also of undigested food: pavo, Juv. 1, 143; cf. trop.: lectio non cruda sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta, Quint. 10, 1, 19; and, alvus, Cato, R. R. 125: qui crudum ructat, i. e.
when undigested food rises in the stomach
, Cels. 1, 2; v. ructo.— Transf., of persons suffering from indigestion, etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23; Quint. 11, 3, 27; Hor. S. 1, 5, 49; id. Ep. 1, 6, 61: crudior, Cic. Clu. 60, 168; cf. cruditas; so, bos, Hor. Epod. 8, 6 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, in a pun, Mart. 3, 13, 3 sq.—B. In gen., of all physical or moral crudeness, immaturity, roughness, etc. 1.Lit.a.Unripe, immature, crude: poma ex arboribus, cruda si sunt, vix evelluntur, si matura et cocta, decidunt, Cic. Sen. 19, 71: pruna (opp. maturissima), Col. 12, 10, 3: muria (opp. matura), id. 12, 6, 2 al.: palmes, Luc. 4, 317 (viridis, Schol.); of an abscess,
, id. Th. 2, 341; cf.: crudum adhuc servitium, Tac. A. 1, 8 fin.: adhuc studia, Petr. 4: crudi sine viribus anni, Sil. 12, 348: juventus,
not yet armed
, id. 3, 302; Claud. Cons. Hon. 3, 42.—(b). Opp. to age, and the weakness arising from age, fresh, vigorous: jam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus, Verg. A. 6, 304; imitated by Tac.: quibus cruda ac viridis senectus, Tac. Agr. 29: cf. meus, Sil. 5, 569.—b.Unprepared, immature, raw, crude: crudum et immotum solum, Col. 2, 2, 25; cf. Plin. 18, 19, 49, 179: pix, Col. 12, 20, 6: corium, Varr. L. L. 5, 116 Müll.; for which, poet., taurus, Val. Fl. 4, 250; and, caestus,
made of raw hide, undressed leather
, Verg. A. 5, 69: rudis cortice crudo hasta, id. ib. 9, 743.—Of verses, unpolished, rude: junctura addita crudis (numeris), Pers. 1, 92 (cf.: si forte aliquid decoctius audis, id. 1, 125).—Of the voice, rough, hoarse: quia crudus fuerit, Cic. de Or. 1, 27, 125.—2.Trop.a.Raw, not prepared or matured: ut cibos mansos ac prope liquefactos demittimus, quo facilius digerantur, ita lectio non cruda, sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta memoriae tradatur, Quint. 10, 1, 19.—b.Rough, unfeeling, cruel, merciless (poet.). (a). Of personal subjects: dicat me Crudum virum esse, Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 14; id. Poen. 5, 2, 148; Ov. M. 4, 240: Getae, id. Tr. 5, 3, 8: cena, crude Thyesta, tua, Mart. 4, 49, 4: crudus et leti artifex, Sen. Hippol. 1220.—More freq., (b). Of things as subjects: bella, Ov. Am. 3, 8, 58: ensis, Verg. A. 10, 682; cf. Sil. 7, 113; Stat. Th. 10, 342: tyrannis, Juv. 8, 223: crudissimum pistrinum, most rude, uncultivated, Cassius ap. Suet. Aug. 4.—Adv. not in use.