horror
See also: Horror
Contents
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɹɚ/
- (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA(key): /ˈhɒɹə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɹə(ɹ)
NounEdit
horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)
- (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?
- (countable) An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace[1]:
- “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”
- (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.’
- Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- I saw many horrors during the war.
- (colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
- (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
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TranslationsEdit
intense distressing fear or repugnance
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intense dislike or aversion
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literary genre
informal: intense anxiety
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Further readingEdit
- horror in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- horror in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- horror at OneLook Dictionary Search
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin horror.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horror (plural horrorok)
DeclensionEdit
| 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 |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horror m (genitive horrōris); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
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| Nominative | horror | horrōrēs |
| Genitive | horrōris | horrōrum |
| Dative | horrōrī | horrōribus |
| Accusative | horrōrem | horrōrēs |
| Ablative | horrōre | horrōribus |
| Vocative | horror | horrōrēs |
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DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 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, 1883–1887)
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
NounEdit
horror f (oblique plural horrors, nominative singular horror, nominative plural horrors)
DescendantsEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
PronunciationEdit
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔˈʁoɾ/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /oˈʁoʁ/
- (Paulistano) IPA(key): /oˈʁoɾ/
- Hyphenation: hor‧ror
NounEdit
horror m (plural horrores)
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SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horror m (plural horrores)