horror
English
/ˈhɔɹɚ/, /ˈhɑɹɚ/, /ˈhɒɹə/
noun
Definitions
- (countable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- (countable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- (countable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- (countable) An individual work in this genre.
- (countable) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- (plural) delirium Delirium tremens.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English horer derived from Old French horror derived from Latin horror (trembling as with cold fear, a shaking, a bristling, terror) root from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (bristle, surprised, stand erect, stiff).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰers-
Gloss
bristle, surprised, stand erect, stiff
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
😯 🙀 🤩
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- J-horror English
- ecohorror English
- horrific English
- horrification English
- horrifier English
- horrify English
- horrorcore English
- horrorfest English
- horrormeister English
- horrorsome English
- nonhorror English
- survival English
- survival horror English
- technohorror English
- abhorreō Latin
- abhorrēre Latin
- herna Latin
- hispidus Latin
- horrendus Latin
- horreo Latin
- horridus Latin
- horrificare Latin
- horripilātus Latin
- horror Latin
- horror, horrorem Latin
- Horror German
- horror Hungarian
- orrore Italian
- horreur French
- χέρσος Ancient Greek
- *pil- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰer(s)-uk-eh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰers- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰr̥s-éh₁-(ye)-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰr̥séh₁(ye)ti Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰórsōs Proto-Indo-European
- サバイバルホラー Japanese
- ホラー Japanese
- horror Polish
- horer Middle English
- horror Old French
- horror Galician
- ځیږ Pashto, Pushto