hircosus

From hircus (“goat”) +‎ -ōsus, possibly reflecting the meaning of the suffix “smelling like”.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɪrˈkoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [irˈkɔː.s̬us]

hircōsus (feminine hircōsa, neuter hircōsum); first/second-declension adjective (derogatory, vulgar)

1. smelling like a goat
   • c. 206 BCE – 188 BCE, Plautus, Mercator 574–575:

     ieiunitatis plenus, anima foetida, / senex hircosus tu osculere mulierem?

     Would you, full of hunger, with a foul breath, a goat-reeking old man, kiss a woman?

   • c. 62 CE, Persius, Saturae 3.77–78:

     hic aliquis de gente hircosa centurionum / dicat: […]

     Here someone of the goat-reeking centurion people might say: […]

• hircosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hircosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press