حتد

مَحِْتدٌ محتد Origin; syn. أَصْلٌ; (IAar, S, L, K;) app. in respect of race, or lineage, only, as several of the lexicologists have expressly asserted; (MF;) as also مَحْفِدٌ (S, L) and مَحْقِدٌ and مَحْكِدٌ: (IAar, L:) pl. مَحَاتِدُ. (A.) You say, فُلَانٌ مِنْ مَحْتِدِ صِدْقٍ, (S,) or فِى مَحْتِدِ صِدْقٍ, (A,) [ Such a one is of a good, or an excellent, origin. ] And هُوَ كَرِيمُ المَحْتِدِ [ He is generous in respect of origin ]. (A, L.) ― -b2- Also Nature; natural, or native, disposition, temper, or the like. (L, K.) You say, of a man who has done an act of kindness and reverted from it, رَجَعَ اـِلَى مَحْتِدِهِ He returned to his natural disposition. (L.)