tetricus.
forbidding, harsh, crabbed, gloomy, sour, stern, severe
Meaning & usage
forbidding, harsh, crabbed, gloomy, sour, stern, severe
Where this word comes from
Unknown. The hypothesis presented by Lewis and Short that it is from taeter (“foul, repulsive”) seems to be based on the assumption that this word shows monophthongization of an original diphthong ae to the long vowel ē, but that is contradicted by a number of examples of the first syllable scanning short in poetry.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.