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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:horrorWikipedia

Alternative forms

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  • horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)

Etymology

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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

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  • (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA(key): /ˈhɒɹ.ə/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɹ.ɚ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹ.ɚ/
  • (some accents) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɚ/
  • Homophones: whore, hoar (some rhotic American accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɒɹə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: horr‧or

Noun

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horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)

  1. (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.
  2. (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[2]:Could there be stories with more horror than these?
  3. (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
    • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:“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. […] ”
  4. (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.’
    1. (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.
  5. (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror. The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
  6. (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  7. (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 53:`My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'

Synonyms

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  • nightmare

Hypernyms

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  • speculative fiction

Derived terms

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  • analog horror
  • analogue horror
  • Belsen horror
  • body horror
  • chamber of horrors
  • dry horrors
  • ecohorror
  • Eurohorror
  • folk horror
  • fridge horror
  • horror autotoxicus
  • horror chamber
  • horrorcore
  • horrorfest
  • horror film
  • horror flick
  • horrorful
  • horrorist
  • horrorize
  • horrormeister
  • horrormonger
  • horror movie
  • horror of horrors
  • horrorous
  • horror punk
  • horrorscope
  • horror show
  • horror-show
  • horrorsome
  • horror story
  • horror-stricken
  • horror-struck
  • horrorthon
  • horror-thriller
  • horror vacui
  • horrorzine
  • house of horrors
  • J-horror
  • mascot horror
  • midnight horror
  • nonhorror
  • outhorror
  • psychological horror
  • shock horror
  • survival horror
  • technohorror
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  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifical
  • horrification
  • horrify

Descendants

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  • → Japanese: ホラー (horā)
  • → Korean: 호러 (horeo)
  • → Polish: horror

Translations

[edit] intense distressing fear or repugnance
  • Albanian: tmerr (sq) m
  • Arabic: رُعْب m (ruʕb), خَوْف (ar) m (ḵawf)
  • Armenian: սարսափ (hy) (sarsapʻ), ահ (hy) (ah)
  • Azerbaijani: vahimə, dəhşət (az)
  • Belarusian: жах m (žax), страх m (strax)
  • Bengali: ভয় (bn) (bhoẏ)
  • Bulgarian: у́жас (bg) m (úžas), страх (bg) m (strah)
  • Catalan: horror (ca) m
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 恐怖 (zh) (kǒngbù), 恐懼 / 恐惧 (zh) (kǒngjù)
  • Czech: hrůza (cs) f
  • Danish: gru, rædsel
  • Dutch: gruwel (nl) m
  • Esperanto: teruro (eo)
  • Estonian: õudus (et), õud, õõv
  • Finnish: kauhu (fi), kammo (fi), hirveys (fi)
  • French: horreur (fr) m, effroi (fr) m
  • Galician: horror m
  • Georgian: საშინელება (sašineleba)
  • German: Angst (de) f, Furcht (de) f, Horror (de) m, Grauen (de) n, Greuel (de) m
  • Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌼𐌴𐌹 f (usfilmei)
  • Greek: τρόμος (el) m (trómos)
  • Hebrew: אֵימָה (he) f (emá)
  • Hindi: दहशत (hi) f (dahśat), आतंक (hi) m (ātaṅk), भय (hi) m (bhay)
  • Hungarian: borzalom (hu)
  • Icelandic: ógn (is) f
  • Indonesian: horor (id)
  • Irish: uafás m
  • Italian: orrore (it) m
  • Japanese: 恐怖 (ja) (きょうふ, kyōfu), 恐れ (ja) (おそれ, osore)
  • Kazakh: қорқыныш (qorqynyş)
  • Khmer: ភេរវារម្មណ៍ (pheirĕəʼviərɑm)
  • Korean: 공포(恐怖) (ko) (gongpo), 무서움 (ko) (museoum), 두려움 (ko) (duryeoum)
  • Kyrgyz: коркунуч (ky) (korkunuc)
  • Latin: horror m
  • Latvian: šausmas f
  • Lithuanian: siaubas, šiurpas
  • Macedonian: у́жас m (úžas), страв (mk) m (strav)
  • Mongolian: аймшиг (mn) (ajmšig)
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: gru f, redsel (no) m
  • Occitan: orror (oc)
  • Old English: ōga m
  • Pashto: دهشت (ps) m (dahšat)
  • Persian: وحشت (fa) (vahšat), دهشت (fa) (dahšat)
  • Plautdietsch: Grul f
  • Polish: groza (pl) f, strach (pl) m
  • Portuguese: horror (pt) m
  • Romanian: groază (ro) f, oroare (ro) f, spaimă (ro) f
  • Russian: у́жас (ru) m (úžas), страх (ru) m (strax), боя́знь (ru) f (bojáznʹ)
  • Sanskrit: घोर (sa) m (ghora)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: у̏жа̄с m Roman: ȕžās (sh) m
  • Slovak: hrôza f
  • Slovene: groza (sl) f
  • Spanish: horror (es) m
  • Swedish: skräck (sv) c, fruktan (sv) c, fasa (sv) c
  • Tajik: даҳшат (dahšat), ваҳшаг (vahšag)
  • Tatar: дәһшәт (tt) (dähşät), куркыныч (qurqınıç)
  • Tocharian B: empelñe
  • Tongan: lilifu
  • Turkish: korku (tr), dehşet (tr)
  • Turkmen: elhençlik
  • Ukrainian: жах m (žax), страх (uk) m (strax)
  • Urdu: دہشت f (dahśat)
  • Uyghur: قورقۇنچ (qorqunch)
  • Uzbek: qoʻrquv (uz), dahshat (uz)
  • Vietnamese: sự khiếp (vi), sự ghê rợn (vi)
thing that which excites horror
  • Esperanto: teruraĵo
intense dislike or aversion
  • Bulgarian: отвраще́ние (bg) n (otvrašténie)
  • Esperanto: hororo
  • Finnish: kammo (fi), inho (fi)
  • French: dégoût (fr), aversion (fr), répulsion (fr) f, horreur (fr) f
  • Russian: отвраще́ние (ru) n (otvraščénije), омерзе́ние (ru) n (omerzénije)
literary genre
  • Belarusian: жах m (žax)
  • Bulgarian: у́жаси (bg) m pl (úžasi)
  • Catalan: terror (ca)
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 恐怖 (zh) (kǒngbù)
  • Czech: horor (cs)
  • Finnish: kauhu (fi), kauhukirjallisuus
  • German: Horror (de) m
  • Japanese: ホラー (ja) (horā)
  • Korean: 호러 (horeo), 공포(恐怖) (ko) (gongpo)
  • Macedonian: у́жаси m pl (úžasi), хо́рор m (hóror)
  • Portuguese: horror (pt) m
  • Russian: у́жас (ru) m (úžas), ужа́стик (ru) m (užástik) (colloquial), хо́ррор (ru) m (xórror) (neologism)
  • Swedish: skräck (sv) c
  • Ukrainian: жах m (žax)
informal: intense anxiety
  • Finnish: täpinät pl
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  • Albanian: (please verify) tmerr (sq)
  • German: (please verify) Horror (de) m, (please verify) Grauen (de) n
  • Icelandic: (please verify) hrollvekja (is) f, (please verify) hryllingur (is) m, (please verify) óhugnaður m, (please verify) ósköp n pl
  • Irish: (please verify) adhfhuath m
  • Persian: (formally) (please verify) هراس (fa) (harâs)
  • Romanian: (please verify) spaimă (ro), (please verify) oroare (ro) f
  • Scottish Gaelic: (please verify) uamhann m, (please verify) oillt f, (please verify) uabhas m, (please verify) uabhann m, (please verify) sgreamh f
  • Telugu: (please verify) దారుణం (te) (dāruṇaṁ)
  • Turkish: (please verify) dehşet (tr), (please verify) yılgı (tr), (please verify) korku (tr)

Further reading

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  • “horror”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “horror”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  • “horror”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin horror.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Central) [uˈror]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [oˈro]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [oˈroɾ]
  • Audio (Barcelona):(file)

Noun

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horror m (plural horrors)

  1. horror, disgust Synonyms: repulsió, aversió
  2. terror Synonyms: terror, por
  3. (figurative) person or thing inspiring the above feelings
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  • horrible
  • hòrrid
  • horrífic
  • horripilar

Further reading

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  • “horror”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
  • “horror”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
  • “horror” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “horror” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English horror.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɦɔ.rɔr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: hor‧ror

Noun

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horror m (uncountable, no diminutive)

  1. horror (genre of fiction)

Derived terms

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  • horrorfilm
  • horrorscenario
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  • horreur
  • horribel

References

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  • van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “horror”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Galician

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin horror.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ɔˈroɾ]

Noun

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horror m (plural horrores)

  1. horror Synonyms: espanto, pavor, terror
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  • horrorizar
  • horroroso

References

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  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “horror”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “horror”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin horror.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhorːor]
  • Hyphenation: hor‧ror
  • Rhymes: -or

Noun

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horror (plural horrorok)

  1. horror

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-attributivepossessive – singular horroré horroroké
non-attributivepossessive – 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

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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

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *horzōs, remodeled into a rhotic-stem. Equivalent to horreo +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

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  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈhɔr.rɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.ror]

Noun

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horror m (genitive horrōris); third declension

  1. bristling (standing on end)
  2. shaking, shivering, chill
  3. dread, terror, horror

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative horror horrōrēs
genitive horrōris horrōrum
dative horrōrī horrōribus
accusative horrōrem horrōrēs
ablative horrōre horrōribus
vocative horror horrōrēs
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  • horrendus
  • horridus
  • horribilis
  • horrificus

Descendants

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  • Catalan: horror
  • English: horror
  • French: horreur
  • Galician: horror
  • Italian: orrore
  • German: Horror
  • Piedmontese: oror
  • Portuguese: horror
  • Romanian: oroare
  • Sicilian: arruri
  • Spanish: horror

References

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  • “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Old French

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Alternative forms

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  • horrour
  • horrur

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

Noun

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horror oblique singular, f (oblique plural horrors, nominative singular horror, nominative plural horrors)

  1. horror or terror

Descendants

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  • English: horror
  • Middle French: horreur
    • French: horreur

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:horrorWikipedia pl

Etymology

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Borrowed from English horror.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈxɔr.rɔr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔrrɔr
  • Syllabification: hor‧ror

Noun

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horror m inan

  1. (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
  2. horror movie Synonym: film grozy
  3. horror (literary genre)

Declension

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singular plural
nominative horror horrory
genitive horroru horrorów
dative horrorowi horrorom
accusative horror horrory
instrumental horrorem horrorami
locative horrorze horrorach
vocative horrorze horrory

Further reading

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

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin horrōrem.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /oˈʁoʁ/ [oˈhoh]
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /oˈʁoʁ/ [oˈhoh]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /oˈʁoɾ/ [oˈhoɾ]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /oˈʁoʁ/ [oˈχoχ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /oˈʁoɻ/ [oˈhoɻ]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔˈʁoɾ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔˈʁoɾ/
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔˈʁo.ɾi/
  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: hor‧ror

Noun

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horror m (plural horrores)

  1. horror Synonyms: temor, terror
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  • horrendo
  • hórrido
  • horrífero
  • horrífico
  • horripilar
  • horrível
  • horrorizar
  • horroroso

Further reading

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  • “horror”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English horror.

Adjective

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horror m or f or n (indeclinable)

  1. horror

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

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horror n (plural horror)

  1. horror

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative horror horrorul horror horrorle
genitive-dative horror horrorului horror horrorlor
vocative horrorule horrorlor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin 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

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  • IPA(key): /oˈroɾ/ [oˈroɾ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: ho‧rror

Noun

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horror m (plural horrores)

  1. horror; terror Synonyms: miedo, temor, terror

Derived terms

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  • horror al vacío
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  • horrendo
  • horrible
  • hórrido
  • horrífico
  • horripilante
  • horrorizar
  • horroroso

References

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  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “horror”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading

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  • “horror”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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