timor

See also: Timor

Latin

Etymology

From timeō (“to fear”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɪ.mɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtiː.mor]

Noun

timor m (genitive timōris); third declension

1. fear, dread

   Synonyms: terror, pavor, metus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.13:

     “Dēgenerēs animōs timor arguit. [...].”

     “Fear reveals ignoble souls.”
     (Dido is implying the opposite: Aeneas is fearless.)

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.18:

     Quī colitur, et amātur: nōn potest amor cum timōre miscērī.

     Whoever is honored is also loved: love cannot be mixed with fear.

   • Office of the Dead, Matins Third Nocturn:

     Peccantem me quotidie, et non poenitentem, timor mortis conturbat me. Quia in inferno nulla est redemptio, miserere mei, Deus, et salva me.

     Sinning daily, and not repenting, the fear of death disturbs me. Because there is no redemption in hell, have mercy on me, O God, and save me.

2. (poetic) awe, reverence

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	timor	timōrēs
genitive	timōris	timōrum
dative	timōrī	timōribus
accusative	timōrem	timōrēs
ablative	timōre	timōribus
vocative	timor	timōrēs

Related terms

• timefactus
• timendus
• timēns
• timeō
• timidē
• timiditās
• timidus

Descendants

• Albanian: tmerr
• Aromanian: timoari
• Catalan: temor
• Friulian: timôr
• Istriot: tamur
• Italian: timore, temore
• Occitan: temor
• Piedmontese: timor
• Portuguese: temor
• Romanian: temoare
• Sicilian: timuri
• Spanish: temor
• Venetan: timór

References

• “timor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “timor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “timor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere
    
  • fear comes upon some one: timor aliquem occupat (B. G. 1. 39)
    
  • to be in fear: in timore esse, versari
    
  • to become frightened: in timorem venire, pervenire
    
  • to banish one's fears: abicere, omittere timorem
    

Malay

Noun

timor

1. (1924-1972) obsolete spelling of timur

Adjective

timor

1. (1924-1972) obsolete spelling of timur

Maranao

Noun

timor

1. wind