English Online Dictionary. What means terror? What does terror mean?
English
Alternative forms
- terrour (obsolete or hypercorrect)
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/
- (some accents) IPA(key): /tɛɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛɹ.ə/
- Rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: ter‧ror
- Homophones: tare, tear (some American accents)
- Homophones: terra, Terra (non-rhotic accents)
Noun
terror (countable and uncountable, plural terrors)
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fear
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- alarm
- fright
- consternation
- dread
- dismay
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.
- “terror”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
- rorter
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin terrōrem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [təˈror]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [təˈro]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [teˈroɾ]
Noun
terror m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural terrors)
- terror, horror
Danish
Noun
terror c (singular definite terroren, not used in plural form)
- terror
References
- “terror” in Den Danske Ordbog
Galician
Etymology
From Latin terror.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tɛˈroɾ]
Noun
terror m (plural terrores)
- terror
- Synonyms: espanto, horror, pavor
Related terms
References
- “terror” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “terror” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “terror” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɛrːor]
- Hyphenation: ter‧ror
- Rhymes: -or
Noun
terror (plural terrorok)
- terror (especially the action or quality of causing dread)
- Synonym: megfélemlítés
Declension
Derived terms
- terrortámadás
References
Further reading
- 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
Etymology
From terreō (“frighten, terrify”) + -or.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈter.ror/, [ˈt̪ɛrːɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈter.ror/, [ˈt̪ɛrːor]
Noun
terror m (genitive terrōris); third declension
- a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic
- Synonyms: pavor, timor, metus
- an object of fear or dread
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
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, from Latin terror.
Noun
terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)
- terror
Derived terms
- terrorangrep
- terrorhandling
- terrorregime
References
- “terror” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.
Noun
terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)
- terror
Derived terms
- terrorhandling
- terrorregime
References
- “terror” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English terror, from Old French terreur (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛr.rɔr/
- Rhymes: -ɛrrɔr
- Syllabification: ter‧ror
Noun
terror m inan
- (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.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ter‧ror
Noun
terror m (plural terrores)
- terror (intense fear)
- (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!
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:terror.
Derived terms
- aterrorizar
- terrorismo
- terrorista
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin terrorem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /teˈroɾ/ [t̪eˈroɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: te‧rror
Noun
terror m (plural terrores)
- horror (genre)
- terror
Derived terms
Related terms
References
Further reading
- “terror”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Noun
terror c
- terror
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- terrorisera
- terrorism
- terrorist