horrificus

== Latin == === Etymology === From horreō (“to bristle, tremble, dread”) +‎ -ficus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɔrˈrɪ.fɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [orˈriː.fi.kus] === Adjective === horrificus (feminine horrifica, neuter horrificum); first/second-declension adjective awful, horrible, dreadful frightening, frightful, horrific ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== horrificō ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: horrífic (learned) → English: horrific → French: horrifique (learned) → Italian: orrifico (learned) Romanian: orific === References === “horrificus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “horrificus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “horrificus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.