horrifer

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

horrĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum (archaic gen. plur. horriferum, Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155), adj. [horror-fero],

that brings trembling or terror , terrible , dreadful , horrible , horrific (poet.): unde horrifer Aquiloni' stridor gelidas molitur nives, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68: Boreas, Ov. M. 1, 65; 15, 471: axis, Val. Fl. 5, 518: nix, id. 5, 307: prodigium horriferum, Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155: aestus (Tartari), Lucr. 3, 1012: Aegis (= δεινή, Hom.), Verg. A. 8, 435: Erinys, Ov. M. 1, 725: voces, Lucr. 5, 996.

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