horricomis

== Latin == === Etymology === From horreō + coma + -is. Coined by 2nd-century Numidian Latin-language writer, rhetorician and philosopher Apuleius for The Golden Ass. === Pronunciation === horricomis: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɔrˈrɪ.kɔ.mɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [orˈriː.ko.mis] Hyphenation: hor‧ri‧co‧mis horricomīs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɔrˈrɪ.kɔ.miːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [orˈriː.ko.mis] Hyphenation: hor‧ri‧co‧mīs === Adjective === horricomis (neuter horricome); third-declension two-termination adjective (hapax legomenon) bristly, shaggy (with hair on end) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension two-termination adjective. === Further reading === “horrĭcŏmis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press horricomis in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3080 “horricomis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 755. Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “horricomis”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎[1], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC "HORRICOMIS", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)