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Latin
Etymology
From hircus (“goat”) + -ōsus, possibly reflecting the meaning of the suffix “smelling like”.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hircōsus (feminine hircōsa, neuter hircōsum); first/second-declension adjective (derogatory, vulgar)
- smelling like a goat
c. 206 BCE – 188 BCE,
Plautus,
Mercator 574–575:
- ieiunitatis plenus, anima foetida, / senex hircosus tu osculere mulierem?
- Would you, full of hunger, with a foul breath, a goat-reeking old man, kiss a woman?
c. 62 CE,
Persius,
Saturae 3.77–78:
- hic aliquis de gente hircosa centurionum / dicat:
- Here someone of the goat-reeking centurion people might say:
References
- hircosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “hircosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press