horror
See also: Horror
Contents
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)
EtymologyEdit
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) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɹɚ/, /ˈhoɚ/
- (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹɚ/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɹə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophone: whore (some American accents)
NounEdit
horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)
- (countable, uncountable) An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
- 2009, Devin Watson, Horror Screenwriting
- Could there be stories with more horror than these?
- 2009, Devin Watson, Horror Screenwriting
- (countable) An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
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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. […]”
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- (uncountable) A genre of fiction, meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
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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.
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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.’
- 1947, Dracula (1931) re-release poster, tagline:
- A Nightmare of Horror!
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- (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors.
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
intense painful fear or repugnance
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intense dislike or aversion
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, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- horror at OneLook Dictionary Search
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin horrere (“to be terrified”).[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horror (plural horrorok)
DeclensionEdit
| 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 |
| 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. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horror m (genitive horrōris); third declension
InflectionEdit
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | horror | horrōrēs |
| genitive | horrōris | horrōrum |
| dative | horrōrī | horrōribus |
| accusative | horrōrem | horrōrēs |
| ablative | horrōre | horrōribus |
| vocative | horror | horrōrēs |
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
- du Cange, Charles (1883), “horror”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
horror f (oblique plural horrors, nominative singular horror, nominative plural horrors)