different between byword vs horror

English

Etymology

From Middle English byword, byworde (“proverb”), from Old English b?word, b?wyrde (“proverb, household word", also "adverb”), from Proto-Germanic *b?wurdij?, equivalent to by- +? word. Compare Latin proverbium, which byword may possibly be a translation of. Cognate with Old High German p?wurti (“proverb”). Compare also Old English b?spel (“proverb, example”), b?cwide (“byword, proverb, tale, fable”), Dutch bijwoord (“adverb”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ba?.w?(?)d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ba?.w?d/

Noun

byword (plural bywords)

1. A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
2. A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
3. Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
4. An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
   • 1611, King James Version, Job 17:6:

     He hath made me also a byword of the people ...
5. A nickname or epithet.

Translations

See also

• bispel
• byspel

Further reading

• byword at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Alternative forms

• biword, by-word, byworde, biworde, bywoorde

Etymology

From Old English b?word, modified from earlier b?wyrde, from Proto-Germanic *b?wurdij?; equivalent to bi- +? word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi??wurd/, /bi??w?rd/, /bi??w??rd/

Noun

byword

1. byword

Descendants

• English: byword

References

• “b?-w?rd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 February 2020.

English

Alternative forms

• horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)

Etymology

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 ?ga.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?h???/
• (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /?h???/
• (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA^(key): /?h???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)

1. (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
2. (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.

   I saw many horrors during the war.
3. (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
4. (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
5. (countable) An individual work in this genre.
   • 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema

     […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.

6. (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.

   The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!

7. (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
8. (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.

Synonyms

• nightmare

Hypernyms

• speculative fiction

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• horror in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• horror in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• horror at OneLook Dictionary Search

Galician

Etymology

From Latin horror.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ro?]

Noun

horror m (plural horrores)

1. horror

   Synonyms: espanto, pavor, terror

Related terms

References

• “horror” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “horror” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hor?or]
• Hyphenation: hor?ror
• Rhymes: -or

Noun

horror (plural horrorok)

1. horror

Declension

References

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *horz?s. Equivalent to horreo +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?hor.ror/, [?h?r??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?or.ror/, [??r??r]

Noun

horror m (genitive horr?ris); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• horrendus
• horridus
• horribilis

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)

Old French

Alternative forms

• horrour
• horrur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

Noun

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

1. horror or terror

Descendants

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

Polish

Etymology

From English horror, from Latin horror.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?.rr?r/

Noun

horror m inan

1. (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
2. (film) horror movie

   Synonym: film grozy

3. (literature) horror

Declension

Further reading

• horror in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• horror in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???o?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o??o?/
• (Paulistano) IPA^(key): /o??o?/
• Hyphenation: hor?ror

Noun

horror m (plural horrores)

1. horror

   Synonyms: temor, terror

Related terms

• horrendo
• hórrido
• horrífero
• horrífico
• horripilar
• horrível
• horrorizar
• horroroso

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror, 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, like Italian ordo, Old French ord, French ordure, Old Catalan hòrreu, horresa, Old Occitan orre, orrezeza, Romanian urdoare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?ro?/, [o?ro?]

Noun

horror m (plural horrores)

1. horror

   Synonyms: miedo, temor, terror

Related terms

References