horror
See also: Horror
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)
Etymology edit
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”). Displaced native Old English ōga.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA(key): /ˈhɒɹ.ə/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɹ.ɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɹə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: whore, hoar (some rhotic American accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Noun edit
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.
- (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- I saw many horrors during the war.
- 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.
- 2009, Devin Watson, Horror Screenwriting[1]:
- Could there be stories with more horror than these?
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace[2]:
- “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 designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- 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.’
- (countable) An individual work in this genre.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 156:
- A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House."
- 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema:
- […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
- (countable, 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.
- (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 53:
- `My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'
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Translations edit
intense distressing fear or repugnance
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intense dislike or aversion
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literary genre
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informal: intense anxiety
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Further reading edit
- “horror”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “horror”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “horror”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Galician edit
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Noun edit
horror m (plural horrores)
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Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin horror.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
horror (plural horrorok)
Declension edit
| 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 edit
- ^ 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *horzōs, remodeled into a rhotic-stem. Equivalent to horreo + -or.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈhor.ror/, [ˈhɔrːɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈor.ror/, [ˈɔrːor]
Noun edit
horror m (genitive horrōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | horror | horrōrēs |
| Genitive | horrōris | horrōrum |
| Dative | horrōrī | horrōribus |
| Accusative | horrōrem | horrōrēs |
| Ablative | horrōre | horrōribus |
| Vocative | horror | horrōrēs |
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “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 edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
Noun edit
horror oblique singular, f (oblique plural horrors, nominative singular horror, nominative plural horrors)
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Polish edit
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horror m inan
- (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
- horror movie
- Synonym: film grozy
- horror (literary genre)
Declension edit
Declension of horror
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin horrōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
horror m (plural horrores)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English horror.
Adjective edit
horror m or f or n (indeclinable)
Declension edit
Declension of horror (invariable)
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | horror | horror | horror | horror | ||
| definite | — | — | — | — | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | horror | horror | horror | horror | ||
| definite | — | — | — | — | |||
Noun edit
horror n (plural horror)
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
horror m (plural horrores)
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Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading edit
- “horror”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014