portentificus

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

portentĭfĭcus, a, um, adj. [portentum-facio],

marvellous , monstrous , unnatural , extraordinary (poet. and in post-class. prose): venena, Ov. M. 14, 55 Jahn (al. portentifera): figurae animalium, Lact. 2, 13, 11: opera, id. 4, 13, 15.

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