The corpus record — Latin

horrificus

horrificus · adj

that causes tremor

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Aeneid 4 · 0.63/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

horrĭfĭcus — Lewis & Short

horrĭfĭcus, a, um, adj.horror-facio,

I that causes tremor or terror, terrible, dreadful, frightful, horrific (poet. and in postAug. prose): bustum, Lucr. 3, 906: letum, Verg. A. 12, 851: ruinae (Aetnae), id. ib. 3, 571: lapsu (Harpyiarum), id. ib. 3, 225: fulmen, Val. Fl. 2, 97: acta, id. 3, 423: caesaries, Luc. 2, 372: poena, Gell. 20, 1 fin.— Adv.: horrĭfĭcē, in a manner to cause dread, with affright: horrifice fertur divinae Matris imago, Lucr. 2, 609; 4, 36.

In the wild

horrificam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.1.48
horrifico Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.225
horrificam Lucan, Pharsalia 2.372
horrifico Vergil, Aeneid 3.225
horrificis Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.625
horrificos Vergil, Aeneid 8.431

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. horrificus (scan p. 324; entry #5116).

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