Socratos Sign in

diris

diris is a Latin form of dirus, meaning “dreadful, fearful, terrible; (Dirae) the Furies”. It is the ablative plural feminine adjective or ablative plural masculine adjective or dative plural neuter adjective or dative plural feminine adjective.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.694: Praecipitem famuli rapite hunc cruciataque diris

Statius, Thebais 1.214: ‘terrarum delicta nec exsaturabile Diris

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.