The corpus record — Latin

horricomis

horricomis · adj

with hair on end

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k

What it meant

horrĭcŏmis — Lewis & Short

horrĭcŏmis, e, adj.horreo-coma,

I with hair on end, bristly, shaggy (Appuleian): canes, App. M. 4, p. 151: hircus, id. ib. 7, p. 192.

In the wild

horricomem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.11
horricomes Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.19

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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