(adjective) : taetrĭcus (tētr-), a, um, taeter
* Forbidding, harsh, crabbed, gloomy, sour, stern, severe (perh. not ante-Aug.; cf.: tristis, severus): puella,Ov. A. A. 1, 721: Sabinae,id. Am. 3, 8, 61: taetricus et asper censor udorum,Mart. 12, 70, 4: lector,id. 11, 2, 7: deae,i. e. the Fates,id. 4, 73, 6; 7, 96, 4: taetrica ac tristis disciplina Sabinorum,Liv. 1, 18, 4: animus (ccupled with horridus),Sen. Ep. 36, 3: febres,Mart. 6, 70, 8: tubae,fierce, warlike,id. 7, 80, 2.