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

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈhor.ri.dus/,[ˈhɔrːɪd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈor.ri.dus/,[ˈɔrːid̪us]

horridus (femininehorrida,neuterhorridum,comparativehorridior);first/second-declension adjective

1. rough,bristly,shaggy
   • c. 77CE – 79CE,Pliny the Elder,Naturalis Historia13.9:

     Pōmum ipsum grande, dūrum,horridum et ā cēterīs generibus distāns sapōre quōdam ferīnae in aprīs

     The fruit [of thesyagrus tree] itself is large, hard,rough, and different in taste from every other kind, with a certain something of the meat in wild boars.

2. rude,rough,uncouth,unpolished,untrimmed
3. awful,dreadful,horrible,horrid,frightful,fearful,terrible
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.376–378:

     “[...] Nunc augur Apollō, / nunc Lyciae sortēs, nunc et Iove missus ab ipsō / interpres dīvom ferthorrida iussa per aurās.”

     “Now prophetic Apollo, now the oracles of Lycia, and now – sent from Jupiter himself! – the divine interpreter [Mercury] bringsgrim orders through the air.”

First/second-declension adjective.

• horridulus

• “horridus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “horridus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• horridus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • well-ordered, well-brushed hair:capilli compti, compositi (opp.horridi)
    

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