horror
See also: Horror
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”). Displaced native Old English ōga.
PronunciationEdit
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɹ.ɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA(key): /ˈhɒɹ.ə/
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.
- (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.
- 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema
- […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
- 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema
- (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: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 53:
- `My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'
SynonymsEdit
HypernymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
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
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horror m (plural horrores)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “horror” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “horror” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin horror.[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 |
| 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 |
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
From Proto-Italic *horzōs. Equivalent to horreo + -or.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horror m (genitive horrōris); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | horror | horrōrēs |
| Genitive | horrōris | horrōrum |
| Dative | horrōrī | horrōribus |
| Accusative | horrōrem | horrōrēs |
| Ablative | horrōre | horrōribus |
| Vocative | horror | horrōrēs |
Related termsEdit
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English horror, from Latin horror.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horror m inan
- (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
- (film) horror movie
- Synonym: film grozy
- (literature) horror
DeclensionEdit
Declension of horror
Further readingEdit
- horror in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- horror in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
horror m (plural horrores)
Related termsEdit
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)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN
Further readingEdit
- “horror” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.