horridus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From horreō (“to stand on end, shiver”) + -idus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈhor.ri.dus/, [ˈhɔrːɪd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈor.ri.dus/, [ˈɔrːid̪us]
Adjective
[edit]horridus (feminine horrida, neuter horridum, comparative horridior); first/second-declension adjective
- rough, bristly, shaggy
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.9:
- Pōmum ipsum grande, dūrum, horridum et ā cēterīs generibus distāns sapōre quōdam ferīnae in aprīs
- The fruit [of the syagrus tree] itself is large, hard, rough, and different in taste from every other kind, with a certain something of the meat in wild boars.
- Pōmum ipsum grande, dūrum, horridum et ā cēterīs generibus distāns sapōre quōdam ferīnae in aprīs
- rude, rough, uncouth, unpolished, untrimmed
- awful, dreadful, horrible, horrid, frightful, fearful, terrible
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.376–378:
- “[...] Nunc augur Apollō, / nunc Lyciae sortēs, nunc et Iove missus ab ipsō / interpres dīvom fert horrida iussa per aurās.”
- “Now prophetic Apollo, now the oracles of Lycia, and now – sent from Jupiter himself! – the divine interpreter [Mercury] brings grim orders through the air.”
- “[...] Nunc augur Apollō, / nunc Lyciae sortēs, nunc et Iove missus ab ipsō / interpres dīvom fert horrida iussa per aurās.”
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | horridus | horrida | horridum | horridī | horridae | horrida | |
Genitive | horridī | horridae | horridī | horridōrum | horridārum | horridōrum | |
Dative | horridō | horridō | horridīs | ||||
Accusative | horridum | horridam | horridum | horridōs | horridās | horrida | |
Ablative | horridō | horridā | horridō | horridīs | |||
Vocative | horride | horrida | horridum | horridī | horridae | horrida |
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “horridus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “horridus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- horridus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- well-ordered, well-brushed hair: capilli compti, compositi (opp. horridi)
- well-ordered, well-brushed hair: capilli compti, compositi (opp. horridi)