horrendus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Future passive participle of horreō (“dread, be afraid of”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /horˈren.dus/, [hɔrˈrɛn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /orˈren.dus/, [orˈrɛn̪d̪us]
Adjective
[edit]horrendus (feminine horrenda, neuter horrendum); first/second-declension adjective
- horrible, horrendous, horrific, horrid, dreadful, dreaded, frightful, awful
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.180–183:
- [...] pedibus celerem et pernīcibus ālīs:
mōnstrum horrendum, ingēns, cui quot sunt corpore plūmae
tot vigilēs oculī subter, mīrābile dictū,
tot linguae, totidem ōra sonant, tot subrigit aurēs.- [Rumor is] fleet-footed and swift-winged: a horrific monster, huge, who has for the feathers on her body as many watchful eyes underneath, [and] – incredible to relate – just as many tongues, sounding lips, and straining ears.
(Fama or Rumor personified as an incredible monster.)
- [Rumor is] fleet-footed and swift-winged: a horrific monster, huge, who has for the feathers on her body as many watchful eyes underneath, [and] – incredible to relate – just as many tongues, sounding lips, and straining ears.
- [...] pedibus celerem et pernīcibus ālīs:
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | horrendus | horrenda | horrendum | horrendī | horrendae | horrenda | |
Genitive | horrendī | horrendae | horrendī | horrendōrum | horrendārum | horrendōrum | |
Dative | horrendō | horrendō | horrendīs | ||||
Accusative | horrendum | horrendam | horrendum | horrendōs | horrendās | horrenda | |
Ablative | horrendō | horrendā | horrendō | horrendīs | |||
Vocative | horrende | horrenda | horrendum | horrendī | horrendae | horrenda |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: horrendous
- Italian: orrendo
- Portuguese: horrendo
- Spanish: horrendo
References
[edit]- “horrendus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers