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horrida

horrida is a Latin form of horridus, meaning “rough, bristly; frightful, horrible”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 161 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 75: … lud quod mihi maximo argumento ad huius innocentiam poterat esse, in rusticis moribus, in victu arido, in hac horrida incultaque vita istius modi maleficia gigni non solere. Vt non omnem frugem neque arborem in omni agro reperi …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.26: … Refúgere oculi, córpus macie extábuit, Lacrimaé peredere úmore exanguís genas, Situm ínter oris bárba paedore hórrida atque Intónsa infuscat péctus inluvié scabrum. haec mala, o stultissime Aeeta, ipse tibi addidisti; non inera …

Ovid, Amores 2.6.5: Horrida pro maestis lanietur pluma capillis,

All forms of horridus (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.