Nudus, nuda, nudum. Naked: hare: vncouered: voyde: vnburied: dende.Æstas nuda. Oui. Summer wherein men go naked for heate.Aruum nudum. Catul. A bare sielde without trees.Cæspes nudus. Sen. A bare turfe.Campi nudi sine fronde & arbore.Ouid.Corpus nudum.Ouid.Ensis nudus.Virg.A maked sworde.Ferro nudo concurrere.Ouid.To runne together with maked swordes.Forma nuda.Ouid.Fauour vnconered.Sedit homo nuda.Ouid.Lacerti nudi.Ouid.Naked armes.Lapis nudus. Virgil. A bare rocke or stone, on which nothing groweth.Littora nuda.Stat.Ossa nuda. Claud. Pectora nuda.Ouid.Nudis radicibus arbores. Plin. Ramus nudus stetit fugiente pomo. Sen. Silex nuda.Virg. Solum nudum. Claud. Vertice nudo fulua cæsaries.Virg.Nuda genu, pro nudum genu habens.Virg.Nuda pedem.Ouid. Nudus, inopsql. Hor. Senecta nuda.Ouid.Poore and naked olde age.Exornata atque instructa domus, nuda & inanis, contraria.Cic.An emptie and bare house.Ciuitas ab omnibus rebus vacua atque nuda.Cicer.A citie voyde and destitute of all things. Nudus propinquis.Cic.Hauing no kinsefolke to helpe him.Nuda magistratibus Resp. per translationem. Cic.A common weale cleane voide and destitute of officers.Agris paternis nudus. Hor. That hath solde and spent all his fathers landes.Mœnia nuda suis ducibus.Ouid.Nummis nudus. Hor. Cleane bare and naked without mony.Nuda vrbs præsidio.Cic.A citie that hath no garrison to defende it. Nudo vestimenta detrahere. Pla. To pull a breech from a barearst man.Nudus in causa destitutúsque.Cic. Artes nudæ. Quint. Bare sciences without eloquence.Asperitas nuda quæstionum. Quint. Certamen nudum operum.Ouid.A contention or strife for their workes or labours onely, and nothing else.Nuda sides. Val Flac. Inficiatio nuda. Quint. A bare deniall without proofe.Vt mala nulla feram oisi nudam Cæsaris iram. Ou. Though I had no other mischiefe but onely the anger and displeasure of Cæsar.Nomina nuda. Oui. The bare names onely without description.Odia nuda.Stat. Simplicitas nuda. Ouid.Traditio nuda.Ouid.Verba nuda.Plin. iun.Veritas nuda. Horat. Vires nudas mouent in prælia.Stat. Nudus.Virg.Dead and vnburied. Nudus & ignota palinure iacebis arena. Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
nūdus, a, um, adj. [for nugdus; root nag-, nig-, to make bare; Sanscr. nagna, naked; cf. Germ. nackt; Eng. naked], naked, bare, unclothed, uncovered, exposed. I.Lit.A. In gen.: membra nuda dabant terrae, Lucr. 5, 970 Lachm. N. cr. (not nudabant): tamquam nudus nuces legeret, in ventrem abstulisse, Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 265: nudus membra Pyracmon, Verg. A. 8, 425: nuda pedem, Ov. M. 7, 183: capite nudo,
bareheaded
, Sall. J. 94, 1: pedibus nudis, Hor. S. 1, 8, 24: costae nudae tegmine, Sil. 5, 449.—Esp., without the toga, in one's tunic: nudus ara, sere nudus, Verg. G. 1, 299; Petr. 92; Aur. Vict. Vir. Illustr. 17; cf. Drak. ad Liv. 3, 26, 9.—Unarmed, unprotected: in maximo metu nudum et caecum corpus ad hostes vortere,
his defenceless back
, Sall. J. 107, 1; Liv. 5, 45, 3.—Prov.: vestimenta detrahere nudo, i. e. to get something out of one who has nothing, or to draw blood from a stone, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 79.—Of things: silex nuda,
not covered with turf
, Verg. E. 1, 15: ensis, id. A. 12, 306: sedit humo nudā, Ov. M. 4, 261: et quodcumque jacet nudā tellure cadaver,
on the bare ground, unburied
, Luc. 6, 550; so of unburied bodies, id. 8, 434; Stat. Th. 8, 73: nudum nemus,
leafless
, Sen. Herc. Oet. 281.—(b). With gen.: loca nuda gignentium,
bare of vegetation
, Sall. J. 79, 6: nudus Arboris Othrys, Ov. M. 12, 512. —B. In partic. 1.Stripped, spoiled, vacant, void, deprived, or destitute of, without. (a). With abl.: urbs nuda praesidio, Cic. Att. 7, 13, 1: praesidiis, Liv. 29, 4, 7: nudus agris, nudus nummis, Hor. S. 2, 3, 184: nudum remigio latus, id. C. 1, 14, 4; Sil. 16, 46.—(b). With ab: Messana ab his rebus sane vacua atque nuda est, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 2, 3.—(g). With gen.: mors famae nuda, Sil. 4, 608.—(d).Absol.: heri quod homines quattuor In soporem conlocāstis nudos, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 147: partem istam subselliorum nudam atque inanem reliquerunt, Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 16.—2.Poor, needy, destitute, forlorn: quem tu semper nudum esse voluisti, Cic. Fl. 21, 51: senecta, Ov. H. 9, 154: senectus, Juv. 7, 35: quis tam nudus, ut, etc., id. 5, 163: sine amicis, sine hospitibus, plane nudum esse ac desertum, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66, 148.—II.Transf.A.1. In gen., bare, mere, pure, simple, sole, alone, only: nuda ista si ponas, judicari qualia sint non facile possim, Cic. Par. 3, 2, 24: ira Caesaris, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 17: locorum nuda nomina, Plin. 3, praef. 2: virtus nudo homine contenta est, Sen. Ben. 3, 18, 2: nuda rerum cognitio, Plin. Ep. 5, 8, 4: nuda virtus, Petr. 88: nudā manu captare fontem, i. e. without a cup, Sen. Hippol. alt. 519.—So freq. in jurid. Lat.: nudo animo adipisci quidem possessionem non possumus: retinere tamen nudo animo possumus, Paul. Sent. 5, tit. 2: etiam nudus consensus sufficit obligationi, Dig. 44, 7, 51; Gai. Inst. 3, 154.—2. Esp., in phrases. (a). Nudum pactum, a bare agreement, i. e. a contract without consideration: ex nudo enim pacto inter cives Romanos actio non nascitur, Paul. Sent. 2, 14, 1.—(b). Nudum jus, an unexecuted right: qui nudum jus Quiritium in servo habet, is potestatem habere non intellegitur, Gai. Inst. 1, 54; 3, 166.—B. In partic. 1.Simple, unadorned: Commentarii (Caesaris) nudi sunt, recti et venusti, omni ornatu orationis tamquam veste detractā, Cic. Brut. 75, 262: brevitas nuda atque inornata, id. de Or. 2, 84, 341: quoniam dicendi facultas non debeat esse jejuna atque nuda, id. ib. 1, 50, 218: nuda et velut incompta oratio, Quint. 8, 6, 41; cf. id. 2, 4, 3; Ov. A. A. 3, 747: sedit humo nudā, nudis incompta capillis, Ov. M. 4, 261.—2.Undisguised, unadorned, not veiled or obscured: veritas, Hor. C. 1, 24, 7: nudissima veritas, Cael. Aur. Chron. 1, 5, 176: simplex ac nuda veritas, Lact. 3, 1, 3: nuda verba, unveiled, i. e. obscene words, Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 4.—Hence, adv.: nūdē, nakedly, simply (post-class.): aliquid tradere breviter ac nude, Lact. 3, 1, 11.