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terror

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English

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Etymology

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From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).

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terror (countable and uncountable, plural terrors)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fear
    • 1794, William Godwin, Things as they are; or, The adventures of Caleb:
      The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      "How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination."
    • 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 9:
      Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
  2. (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
    • 1921, Edith Birkhead, The tale of terror: a study of the Gothic romance:
  3. (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
    • 1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, →OCLC, page 474:
      The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
    • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      The terrors of the storm
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
  4. (uncountable) Terrorism.
    a terror attack
    the War on Terror
    • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎[1], number Summer 2019:
      Rank-and-file progressives don’t usually think of the immigration policies they support—expanding refugee quotas, easing restrictions on some classes of immigrants, and ending family separation—as an endorsement of detention, deportation, and racialized terror.
  5. (pathology, countable) A night terror.
  6. (Philippines, slang) A strict teacher that fails most of the students.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin terrōrem.

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Noun

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terror m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural terrors)

  1. terror, horror

Danish

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terror c (singular definite terroren, not used in plural form)

  1. terror

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Galician

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin terror.

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  • IPA(key): /tɛˈroɾ/ [t̪ɛˈroɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Hyphenation: te‧rror

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terror m (plural terrores)

  1. terror
    Synonyms: espanto, horror, pavor
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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.[1]

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛrːor]
  • Hyphenation: ter‧ror
  • Rhymes: -or

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terror (plural terrorok)

  1. terror (especially the action or quality of causing dread)
    Synonym: megfélemlítés

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative terror terrorok
accusative terrort terrorokat
dative terrornak terroroknak
instrumental terrorral terrorokkal
causal-final terrorért terrorokért
translative terrorrá terrorokká
terminative terrorig terrorokig
essive-formal terrorként terrorokként
essive-modal — —
inessive terrorban terrorokban
superessive terroron terrorokon
adessive terrornál terroroknál
illative terrorba terrorokba
sublative terrorra terrorokra
allative terrorhoz terrorokhoz
elative terrorból terrorokból
delative terrorról terrorokról
ablative terrortól terroroktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		terroré terroroké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		terroréi terrorokéi
Possessive forms of terror
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. terrorom terroraim
2nd person sing. terrorod terroraid
3rd person sing. terrora terrorai
1st person plural terrorunk terroraink
2nd person plural terrorotok terroraitok
3rd person plural terroruk terroraik

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  1. ^ 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

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  • terror in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin

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Etymology

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From terreō (“frighten, terrify”) +‎ -or.

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Noun

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terror m (genitive terrōris); third declension

  1. a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic
    Synonyms: pavor, timor, metus
  2. an object of fear or dread

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative terror terrōrēs
Genitive terrōris terrōrum
Dative terrōrī terrōribus
Accusative terrōrem terrōrēs
Ablative terrōre terrōribus
Vocative terror terrōrēs
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  • “terror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “terror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere
    • terror, panic seizes some one: terror incidit alicui
    • terror, panic seizes some one: terror invadit in aliquem (rarely alicui, after Livy aliquem)
    • to overwhelm some one with terror: in terrorem conicere aliquem

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

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terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

  1. terror

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

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terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

  1. terror

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Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English terror, from Old French terreur (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”).

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terror m inan

  1. (politics) terror (policy of political repression and violence intended to subdue political opposition)

Declension

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Declension of terror
singular
nominative terror
genitive terroru
dative terrorowi
accusative terror
instrumental terrorem
locative terrorze
vocative terrorze

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  • terror in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • terror in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin terrōrem.

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  • Hyphenation: ter‧ror

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terror m (plural terrores)

  1. terror (intense fear)
    • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 493:
      Os olhos do elfo se arregalavam de terror e ele tremia.
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    • 2009, Robson Campos De Abreu, Teatro para Mágicos, Clube de Autores, page 60:
      A música é tão importante que existe até categoria de premiação no Oscar, pois a mesma ajuda a criar todo o clima que vemos nos filmes[,] seja este um filme divertido e infantil, ou seja,[sic] aquele terror super hiper mega blaster assustador.
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  2. (Brazil, slang) a very troublesome person or thing
    Você é um terror, garoto! ― You're naughty, boy!
    Esses bandidos são um terror ― Those criminals are terrible!

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin terrorem.[1]

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  • IPA(key): /teˈroɾ/ [t̪eˈroɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: te‧rror

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terror m (plural terrores)

  1. horror (genre)
  2. terror

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos

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Swedish

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terror c

  1. terror

Declension

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Declension of terror
nominative genitive
singular indefinite terror terrors
definite terrorn terrorns
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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