sēmĭ-nūdus

a, um, adj.
I. half-naked (not ante-Aug.).
I. Lit.: consules, prope seminudi sub jugum missi, Liv. 9, 6; 24, 40; Suet. Vit. 17; Front. Princ. Hist. p. 318.—As subst.: ille seminudus, Sen. Ep. 6, 2, 2.—
B. Transf., half-unarmed, almost defenceless: pedes vagus et prope seminudus, Liv. 31, 35, 6.—
II. Trop.: sententiae, Front. Ep. ad Anton. 1, 2.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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