horror
English
Alternative forms
- horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɹɚ/
- (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA(key): /ˈhɒɹə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɹə(ɹ)
Noun
horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)
- (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing 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.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace:
- “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.
- 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.’
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- 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.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- psychological horror
- survival horror
Related terms
Translations
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Further reading
- 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
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhorːor]
- Hyphenation: hor‧ror
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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
- 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
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈhor.ror/, [ˈhɔr.rɔr]
Noun
horror m (genitive horrōris); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
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 |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- 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 French
Alternative forms
- horrour
- horrur
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
Spanish
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oˈroɾ/
Related terms
- horrible
- hórrido
- horrífico
- horripilante