horridus

Latin

From horreō (“to stand on end, shiver”) +‎ -idus.

horridus (feminine horrida, neuter horridum, comparative horridior); first/second-declension adjective

rough, bristly, shaggy
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.9:
  Pōmum ipsum grande, dūrum, horridum et ā cēterīs generibus distāns sapōre quōdam ferīnae in aprīs
  The fruit [of the syagrus tree] itself is large, hard, rough, and different in taste from every other kind, with a certain something of the meat in wild boars.
rude, rough, uncouth, unpolished, untrimmed
dreadful, horrid, frightful

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	horridus	horrida	horridum	horridī	horridae	horrida
Genitive	horridī	horridae	horridī	horridōrum	horridārum	horridōrum
Dative	horridō	horridae	horridō	horridīs
Accusative	horridum	horridam	horridum	horridōs	horridās	horrida
Ablative	horridō	horridā	horridō	horridīs
Vocative	horride	horrida	horridum	horridī	horridae	horrida

→ Catalan: hòrrid
Italian: ordo; → orrido
Old Catalan: hòrreu; ⇒ horresa
Old French: ort, ord
- Anglo-Norman: ort, ord
  - Norman: orde, yorde
- Walloon: yôrd
Old French: ordier
- Anglo-Norman: ordier, order
  - Norman: hourder
Old French: ordir
- Anglo-Norman: ordir
  - Norman: ordir, yordir
⇒ Old French: ordure
- Anglo-Norman: ordure
  - Norman: ordeure
  - → Middle English: ordur, ordure
    - English: ordure
- Middle French: ordure
  - French: ordure
Old Occitan: orre; ⇒ orrezeza
→ Portuguese: hórrido
Romanian: urdoare
→ Spanish: hórrido
→ English: horrid

“horridus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“horridus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
horridus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- well-ordered, well-brushed hair: capilli compti, compositi (opp. horridi)

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