luctificus

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

luctĭfĭcus, a, um, adj. [luctus - facio],

causing sorrow or lamentation, doleful, woful, baleful : clades, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 25: Alecto, Verg. A. 7, 324: pavor, Sil. 6, 557: jubar, Val. Fl. 3, 292.— Neutr. as adv.: luctificum clangente tuba, Val. Fl. 3, 348.

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