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diri

diri is a Latin form of dirus, meaning “dreadful, fearful, terrible; (Dirae) the Furies”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular neuter adjective or genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 1.488: fulgura nec diri totiens arsere cometae.

Martial, Epigrammata 10.35.6: Diri prandia nec refert Thyestae;

All forms of dirus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.