terror

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French terreur (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: ter‧ror
  • Homophones: tare, tear (some American accents)
  • Homophones: terra, Terra (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

terror (countable and uncountable, plural terrors)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fear
  2. (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
    • 1921, Edith Birkhead, The tale of terror: a study of the Gothic romance
  3. (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
    • 1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, →OCLC, page 474:
      The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
    • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson
      The terrors of the storm
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
  4. (uncountable) terrorism
    a terror attack; the War on Terror
    • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎[1], number Summer 2019:
      Rank-and-file progressives don’t usually think of the immigration policies they support—expanding refugee quotas, easing restrictions on some classes of immigrants, and ending family separation—as an endorsement of detention, deportation, and racialized terror.

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Translations

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Further reading

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

terror m or f (plural terrors)

  1. terror, horror

Danish

Noun

terror c (singular definite terroren, not used in plural form)

  1. terror

References

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛrːor]
  • Hyphenation: ter‧ror

Noun

terror (plural terrorok)

  1. terror

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative terror terrorok
accusative terrort terrorokat
dative terrornak terroroknak
instrumental terrorral terrorokkal
causal-final terrorért terrorokért
translative terrorrá terrorokká
terminative terrorig terrorokig
essive-formal terrorként terrorokként
essive-modal — —
inessive terrorban terrorokban
superessive terroron terrorokon
adessive terrornál terroroknál
illative terrorba terrorokba
sublative terrorra terrorokra
allative terrorhoz terrorokhoz
elative terrorból terrorokból
delative terrorról terrorokról
ablative terrortól terroroktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		terroré terroroké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		terroréi terrorokéi
Possessive forms of terror
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. terrorom terroraim
2nd person sing. terrorod terroraid
3rd person sing. terrora terrorai
1st person plural terrorunk terroraink
2nd person plural terrorotok terroraitok
3rd person plural terroruk terroraik

Derived terms

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

From terreō (“frighten, terrify”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

Noun

terror m (genitive terrōris); third declension

  1. a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic
  2. an object of fear or dread

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative terror terrōrēs
Genitive terrōris terrōrum
Dative terrōrī terrōribus
Accusative terrōrem terrōrēs
Ablative terrōre terrōribus
Vocative terror terrōrēs

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Descendants

  • Catalan: terror
  • English: terror
  • Finnish: terrori
  • French: terreur
  • Galician: terror
  • German: Terror

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References

  • “terror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “terror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere
    • terror, panic seizes some one: terror incidit alicui
    • terror, panic seizes some one: terror invadit in aliquem (rarely alicui, after Livy aliquem)
    • to overwhelm some one with terror: in terrorem conicere aliquem

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

Noun

terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

  1. terror

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

Noun

terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

  1. terror

Derived terms

References

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

Pronunciation

Noun

terror m inan

  1. terror

Declension

Declension of terror
singular plural
nominative terror —
genitive terroru —
dative terrorowi —
accusative terror —
instrumental terrorem —
locative terrorze —
vocative terrorze —

Derived terms

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

terror m (plural es)

  1. terror (intense fear)
    • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 493:
      Os olhos do elfo se arregalavam de terror e ele tremia.
  2. (Brazil, slang) a very troublesome person or thing
    Você é um terror, garoto! - You're naughty, boy!
    Esses bandidos são um terror - Those criminals are terrible!

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:terror.

Derived terms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem[1].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teˈroɾ/ [t̪eˈroɾ]

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

  1. horror
  2. terror

Derived terms

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Further reading

Swedish

Noun

terror c

  1. terror

Declension

Declension of terror 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative terror terrorn — —
Genitive terrors terrorns — —

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  1. ^ https://www.scribd.com/document/158436196/Diccionario-Critico-Etimologico-castellano-RJ-X-Corominas-Joan-pdf
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