horror

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English

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Alternative forms

  • horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)

Etymology

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From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɒɹə(ɹ)

Noun

horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)

  1. (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
    • 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato: A tragedy, published 1750, page 44:
      Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
    • 2009, Devin Watson, Horror Screenwriting
      Could there be stories with more horror than these?
  2. (countable) An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  3. (uncountable) A genre of fiction meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
    • 1898 July 3, Philadelphia Inquirer, page 22:
      The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
    • 1917 February 11, New York Times, Book reviews, page 52:
      Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
  4. Something horrible; that which excites horror.
    I saw many horrors during the war.
  5. (colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
    The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
  6. (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; delirium tremens; often the horrors.

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Translations

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Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhorːor]
  • Hyphenation: hor‧ror

Noun

horror (plural horrorok)

  1. horror

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative horror horrorok
accusative horrort horrorokat
dative horrornak horroroknak
instrumental horrorral horrorokkal
causal-final horrorért horrorokért
translative horrorrá horrorokká
terminative horrorig horrorokig
essive-formal horrorként horrorokként
essive-modal — —
inessive horrorban horrorokban
superessive horroron horrorokon
adessive horrornál horroroknál
illative horrorba horrorokba
sublative horrorra horrorokra
allative horrorhoz horrorokhoz
elative horrorból horrorokból
delative horrorról horrorokról
ablative horrortól horroroktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		horroré horroroké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		horroréi horrorokéi
Possessive forms of horror
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. horrorom horroraim
2nd person sing. horrorod horroraid
3rd person sing. horrora horrorai
1st person plural horrorunk horroraink
2nd person plural horrorotok horroraitok
3rd person plural horroruk horroraik
Possessive forms of horror
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. horrorom horrorjaim
2nd person sing. horrorod horrorjaid
3rd person sing. horrorja horrorjai
1st person plural horrorunk horrorjaink
2nd person plural horrorotok horrorjaitok
3rd person plural horrorjuk horrorjaik

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

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From horreo +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

Noun

horror m (genitive horrōris); third declension

  1. bristling (standing on end)
  2. shaking, shivering, chill
  3. dread, terror, horror

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative horror horrōrēs
Genitive horrōris horrōrum
Dative horrōrī horrōribus
Accusative horrōrem horrōrēs
Ablative horrōre horrōribus
Vocative horror horrōrēs

Descendants

  • Catalan: horror
  • English: horror
  • French: horreur
  • Italian: orrore

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References

  • “horror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “horror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • horror in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

Noun

horror oblique singular, f (oblique plural horrors, nominative singular horror, nominative plural horrors)

  1. horror or terror

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: hor‧ror

Noun

horror m (plural es)

  1. horror

Synonyms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

Cf. also the popular Old Spanish horrura, inherited from a derivative of the Latin or with a change of suffix, and taking on the meaning of "dirtiness, filth, impurity, scum"; comparable to derivatives of horridus in other Romance languages[1], like Italian ordo, Old French ord, French ordure, Old Catalan hòrreu, horresa, Old Occitan orre, orrezeza, Romanian urdoare.

Pronunciation

Noun

horror m (plural horrores)

  1. horror

Synonyms

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References

  1. ^ https://www.scribd.com/document/158436236/Diccionario-Critico-Etimologico-castellano-G-MA-Corominas-Joan-pdf
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