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Latin
Etymology
From horreō (“to stand on end, shiver”) + -idus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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 itself is large, hard, rough, and different in taste from every other kind, with a certain something of the meat in wild boars.
- 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 brings grim orders through the air.”
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- well-ordered, well-brushed hair: capilli compti, compositi (opp. horridi)