terror

terror

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English

Alternative forms

  • terrour (obsolete or hypercorrect)

Etymology

From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror m (“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”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/
    • (some accents) IPA(key): /tɛɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.ɹə/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈte.ɹə/
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.ɹəɹ/
  • (Philadelphia, merry–Murray merger) IPA(key): /ˈtʌ.ɹɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: ter‧ror
  • Homophones: tare, tear (some American accents)
  • Homophones: terra, Terra (both non-rhotic); tearer (Mary–marry–merry merger)

Noun

terror (countable and uncountable, plural terrors)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fear
  2. (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
  3. (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
  4. (uncountable) Terrorism.
  5. (pathology, countable) A night terror.

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Adjective

terror (comparative more terror, superlative most terror)

  1. (Philippines, slang) A strict teacher who fails most of the students.

References

  • “terror”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • terror in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • “terror”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “terror”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • rorter

Catalan

Etymology

(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Borrowed from Latin terrōrem m.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [təˈror]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [təˈro]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [teˈroɾ]

Noun

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

  1. terror, horror

Danish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. terror

References

  • “terror” in Den Danske Ordbog

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin terror m.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

  1. terror
    Synonyms: espanto, horror, pavor

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References

  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “terror”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “terror”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • “terror”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
  • “terror” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “terror”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror m.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

terror (plural terrorok)

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

Declension

Derived terms

  • terrortámadás

References

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈter.ror/, [ˈt̪ɛrːɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈter.ror/, [ˈt̪ɛrːor]

Noun

terror m (genitive terrōris); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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Descendants

References

  • “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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, borrowed from Latin terror m.

Pronunciation

Noun

terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

  1. terror

Derived terms

  • terrorangrep
  • terrorhandling
  • terrorregime

References

  • “terror” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, borrowed from Latin terror m.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtʰerru̞r]

Noun

terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

  1. terror

Derived terms

  • terrorhandling
  • terrorregime

References

  • “terror” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, borrowed from Old French terreur f, borrowed from Latin terror m, from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛr.rɔr/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrrɔr
  • Syllabification: ter‧ror

Noun

terror m inan

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

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terrōrem m.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ter‧ror

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

  1. terror (intense fear)
  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!

Derived terms

  • aterrorizar
  • terrorismo m
  • terrorista

Further reading

  • “terror”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
  • “terror”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terrorem m.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

  1. terror
  2. (genre) horror

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

terror c

  1. terror

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

  • terrorisera
  • terrorism
  • terrorist

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