hirsutus

hirsūtus, a, um, adj. [primary form HIRSUS, a variation of hirtus], rough, shaggy, bristly, prickly, hirsute = dasus.

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.