dirum

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

Found 71 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 4.246: aut dirum tiniae genus, aut invisa Minervae

Lucan, Civil War 2.180: Dirum saevitiae, pereuntis parcere morti.

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.