Either from:

• Proto-Indo-European*h₂sus-d(h)o-, from*h₂sews-(“dry”).^[1] Cognate withAncient Greekαὖος(aûos),Russianсухо́й(suxój),Lithuaniansaũsas andEnglishsere,seer,sorrel; or,
• (according toFestus^[2]) *sēūdum, fromsē- +‎ūdus.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.d̪us]

sūdus (femininesūda,neutersūdum);first/second-declension adjective

1. (rare)dry

   Synonyms:siccus,āridus

   • c. 125CE – 180CE,Apuleius,Apologia sive pro se de magia 16:

     Videturne uobis debere philosophia haec omnia uestigare et inquirere et cuncta specula uel uda uelsuda [soli] uidere?

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2. (of weather)bright,clear

   Synonym:serēnus

   • c. 37BCE – 30BCE,Virgil,Georgics4.77:

     Ergo, ubi [apes] ver nactaesudum camposque patentes
     Erumpunt portis; […]

     And so, when met again withbright springtide and open fields, they [the bees] break free from their hive; […]

First/second-declension adjective.

• “sudus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sudus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sudus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “sudus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995),New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press,→ISBN

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