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terrificus

terrifying

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Argonautica 7 · 1.88/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Thebais 6 · 0.96/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Punica 6 · 0.79/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. terrificus — de Vaan

terrificus 'terrifying' (Lucr.+X terrificare 'to alarm' (Lucr.+); absterrere 'to frighten away, deter' (P1.+), deterrere 'to discourage' (P1.+), exterrere 'to scare' (Enn.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. terrificus, p. 631]

2. terrĭfĭcus — Lewis & Short

terrĭfĭcus, a, um, adj.terreo-facio,

I that causes terror, frightful, terrific (poet.): (Curetes) cristae, Lucr. 2, 632; 5, 1314: caesaries capitis, Ov. M. 1, 179: vates, Verg. A. 5, 524: sacrum, Val. Fl. 1, 785: vaticinationes, Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 19.

In the wild

terrificos Vergil, Aeneid 12.104
terrificos Statius, Thebais 6.835
terrificis Silius Italicus, Punica 5.189
terrifico Silius Italicus, Punica 15.760
terrifici Vergil, Aeneid 5.524
terrificis Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.20.19

6 of 44 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. terrificus (scan p. 631; entry #1803).

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