aridity

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-eh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *āsēō

Latin āreō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin āridus

Latin -tās

Latin āriditāsbor.

English aridity

Borrowed from Latin āriditās (“dryness”); equivalent to arid +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɚˈɪd.əti/, [ɚˈɪd.əɾi]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

aridity (countable and uncountable, plural aridities)

1. A long-term lack of rainfall or moisture.

Synonyms

• aridness

Derived terms

• hyperaridity
• semiaridity
• subaridity

Translations

long term lack of rainfall or moisture

• Arabic: قُحُولَة f (quḥūla)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: aridesa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乾旱 / 干旱 (zh) (gānhàn), 乾旱度 / 干旱度, 乾燥性 / 干燥性

• Cornish: seghter m
• Czech: vyprahlost f
• Finnish: kuivuus (fi), aridisuus
• German: Aridität (de) f, Trockenheit (de) f, Dürre (de) f
• Middle English: droghte
• Persian: خشکی (fa) (xoški)
• Portuguese: aridez f
• Romanian: ariditate (ro) f
• Spanish: aridez (es) f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صوسزلق (susuzluk)

• Volapük: sig (vo)
• Welsh: poethwg m sychin m