horror
English
editAlternative forms
edit- horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)
Etymology
editFrom 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) - (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)
Noun
edithorror (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.
- 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. […] ”
- (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.
Synonyms
editHypernyms
editDerived terms
edit- analog horror
- analogue horror
- Belsen horror
- body horror
- chamber of horrors
- dry horrors
- ecohorror
- Eurohorror
- folk horror
- fridge horror
- horror autotoxicus
- 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
- midnight horror
- nonhorror
- outhorror
- psychological horror
- shock horror
- survival horror
- technohorror
Related terms
editTranslations
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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
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin horror.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithorror m (plural horrores)
Related terms
editReferences
edit- 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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin horror.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithorror (plural horrorok)
Declension
editInflection (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 |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
horroré | horroroké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
horroréi | horrorokéi |
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
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
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *horzōs, remodeled into a rhotic-stem. Equivalent to horreo + -or.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈhor.ror/, [ˈhɔrːɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈor.ror/, [ˈɔrːor]
Noun
edithorror m (genitive horrōris); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
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
editDescendants
editReferences
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
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
Noun
edithorror oblique singular, f (oblique plural horrors, nominative singular horror, nominative plural horrors)
Descendants
editPolish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
edithorror m inan
- (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
- horror movie
- Synonym: film grozy
- horror (literary genre)
Declension
editFurther reading
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin horrōrem.
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
edithorror m (plural horrores)
Related terms
editRomanian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English horror.
Adjective
edithorror m or f or n (indeclinable)
Declension
editinvariable | singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | horror | horror | horror | horror | |||
definite | — | — | — | — | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | horror | horror | horror | horror | |||
definite | — | — | — | — |
Noun
edithorror n (plural horror)
Declension
editSpanish
editEtymology
editCf. 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
editNoun
edithorror m (plural horrores)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “horror”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
edit- “horror”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰers-
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɔrrɔr
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/oɾ
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