horridus

From horreō (“to stand on end, shiver”) +‎ -idus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhɔr.rɪ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.ri.d̪us]

horridus (feminine horrida, neuter horridum, comparative horridior); first/second-declension adjective

1. 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.

2. rude, rough, uncouth, unpolished, untrimmed
3. 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.”

First/second-declension adjective.

• horridulus

• “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)