horriferum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →horrifer, horrifera, horriferum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
awful, horrible, dreadful; frightening, chilling, exciting terror;
acc. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.)
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...pruinae flabraque ventorum violento turbine vexant. praeterea genus horriferum natura ferarum humanae genti infestum terraque marique cur alit..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...paratur? bos aret aut mortem senioribus inputet annis, horriferum contra borean ovis arma ministret, ubera dent saturae manibus..."