The corpus record — Latin

horrifer

that brings trembling

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Where it lives

Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

horrĭfer — Lewis & Short

horrĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum (archaic

I gen. plur. horriferum, Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155), adj. horror-fero, that brings trembling or terror, terrible, dreadful, horrible, horrific (poet.): unde horrifer Aquiloni' stridor gelidas molitur nives, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68: Boreas, Ov. M. 1, 65; 15, 471: axis, Val. Fl. 5, 518: nix, id. 5, 307: prodigium horriferum, Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155: aestus (Tartari), Lucr. 3, 1012: Aegis (= deinh/, Hom.), Verg. A. 8, 435: Erinys, Ov. M. 1, 725: voces, Lucr. 5, 996.

In the wild

horriferam Vergil, Aeneid 8.435
horriferis Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.996
horrifera Seneca, Phaedra 1
horriferum Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.218
horrifer Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.65
horriferamve Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.306

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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