teterrimous

English

Etymology

From Latin teterrima (“most foul, most ugly”).[1]

Adjective

teterrimous (comparative more teterrimous, superlative most teterrimous)

  1. (rare) Extremely foul or ugly; horrible; terrible.
    • 1854, Edward Michael Whitty, The Derbyites and the Coalition: Parliamentary Sketches, Trübner & Co, page 128:
      Captain Magan, the teterrimous occasion of the wars of the week, enters battle in a red shirt!
    • 1885, The Royal River: The Thames, From Source to Sea, Gresham Books Limited, published 1983, →ISBN, page 194:
      Halliford Bridge was washed away some years ago by the floods; and now the Surrey and Middlesex shores are connected by a brick and iron structure which is named Walton Bridge, and which, being the teterrimous cause of war between Bumbledon on both sides the river, was painted of two colours, a chromatic difference that greatly increased the normal ugliness of the design.
    • 2009, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, The Choir Boats‎, Chizine Publications, published 2012, →ISBN:
      On the very edge of sight the teterrimous mountains, huge, made of brass, scaling the dark heavens, rimmed with blue flames.

References
  1. J. Hanson, "Remedying a Teterrimous Situation: Catholic Phoenix Provides the Latin Text of Ineffabilis Deus", Catholic Phoenix, 7 December 2010
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