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panic
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pæn?k/
- Rhymes: -æn?k
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French panique, from Ancient Greek ??????? (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”), from ??? (Pán, “Pan”). Pan is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Alternative forms
- panick (obsolete)
Adjective
panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)
- (now rare) Pertaining to the god Pan.
- Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:
- All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p.537:
- At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:
Noun
panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)
- Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- (finance, economics) Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
- (computing) A kernel panic or system crash.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)
- (intransitive) To feel overwhelming fear.
- (transitive) To cause somebody to panic.
- (by extension, computing, intransitive) To crash.
- (by extension, computing, transitive) To cause the system to crash.
Translations
Related terms
- panicky
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin panicum.
Noun
panic
- (botany) A plant of the genus Panicum.
Synonyms
- panicgrass, panic grass
Anagrams
- cap'in, incap
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?pa??t?s]
- Hyphenation: pa?nic
Noun
panic m anim (feminine panna)
- male virgin
Declension
Related terms
- panna f
- pán m
- paní f
Further reading
- panic in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- panic in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin panicum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.nik/
Noun
panic m (plural panics)
- (botany) Refers to several thorny shrubs; cockspur, panic, panicgrass
Synonyms
- pied-de-coq
- patte de poule
- crête de coq
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa?it?s/
Noun
panic m (genitive singular panica, nominative plural panici, genitive plural panicov, declension pattern of chlap)
- male virgin
Declension
Derived terms
- panický
- panicky
- panickos?, panictvo
Related terms
- panna f
Further reading
- panic in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
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horror
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)
- (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- I saw many horrors during the war.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema
- […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
- 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema
- (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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- bristling (standing on end)
- shaking, shivering, chill
- 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)
- 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
- (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
- (film) horror movie
- Synonym: film grozy
- (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)
- 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)
- horror
- Synonyms: miedo, temor, terror
Related terms
References
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