The corpus record — Latin

taetricus

taetricus · adj

forbidding

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 6.74/10k
Tyranni Triginta 4 · 6.07/10k
Divus Aurelianus 4 · 5.12/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Epigrammata 14 · 2.49/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

taetrĭcus — Lewis & Short

taetrĭcus (tētr-), a, um, adj.taeter,

I forbidding, harsh, crabbed, gloomy, sour, stern, severe (perh. not ante-Aug.; cf.: tristis, severus): puella, Ov. A. A. 1, 721: Sabinae, id. Am. 3, 8, 61: taetricus et asper censor udorum, Mart. 12, 70, 4: lector, id. 11, 2, 7: deae, i. e. the Fates, id. 4, 73, 6; 7, 96, 4: taetrica ac tristis disciplina Sabinorum, Liv. 1, 18, 4: animus (ccupled with horridus), Sen. Ep. 36, 3: febres, Mart. 6, 70, 8: tubae, fierce, warlike, id. 7, 80, 2.

In the wild

tetrico Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 12.5
Tetricus Historia Augusta, Tyranni Triginta 24
tetrica Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.197
Tetricos Ausonius, Parentalia 4.10
tetrico Martial, Epigrammata 1.62.2
tetricae Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.721

6 of 41 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.