(adjective) : crūdus, a, um, root kru-, of Gr. κρύος; cf. cruor, crudelis
* Bloody, bleeding, trickling with blood, etc.
* Prop. (so rare): vulnus,Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 11: vulnera,Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 19; id. P. 1, 3, 16.
* Transf.
* 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.
* In gen., of all physical or moral crudeness, immaturity, roughness, etc.
* Lit.
* 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,not mature,Cels. 5, 28, 11: puella,Mart. 8, 64, 11; cf. Hor. C. 3, 11, 12: funera nepotis,premature, early,Stat. Th. 9, 391; cf. id. Achill. 1, 478: amor,yet young, fresh,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.
* Trop.
* 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.
* 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.
* Rough, unfeeling, cruel, merciless (poet.).
* 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.
* 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.

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