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terror
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 terr?re (“to frighten, terrify”), from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t???/, in some accents IPA(key): /?t??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t???/
- Rhymes: -???(?), -??(?)
- 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
- 1794, William Godwin, Things as they are; or, The adventures of Caleb
- The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- 1921, Edith Birkhead, The tale of terror: a study of the Gothic romance
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The terrors of the storm
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- (uncountable) terrorism
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- alarm
- fright
- consternation
- dread
- dismay
References
- terror at 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- terror in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- rorter
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /t??ro/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /te?ro?/
Noun
terror m or 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): [t??ro?]
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, 2006-2016.
- “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): [?t?r?or]
- 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 értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Latin
Etymology
From terre? (“frighten, terrify”) +? -or.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ter.ror/, [?t??r??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ter.ror/, [?t??r??r]
Noun
terror m (genitive terr?ris); third declension
- a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic
- 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?[3], 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
From English terror, from Old French terreur (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terr?re (“to frighten, terrify”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?.rr?r/
Noun
terror m inan
- (politics) terror (policy of political repression and violence intended to subdue political opposition)
Declension
Derived terms
- (verbs) terroryzowa?, strerroryzowa?
- (nouns) terrorysta, terrortystka, terroryzm
- (adjective) terrorystyczny
- (adverb) terrorystycznie
Further reading
- terror in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- terror in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /t?.??o?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /te.??o?/
Noun
terror m (plural terrores)
- terror (intense fear)
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 493:
- Os olhos do elfo se arregalavam de terror e ele tremia.
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 493:
- (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 terror, terrorem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?ro?/, [t?e?ro?]
Noun
terror m (plural terrores)
- horror (genre)
- terror
Derived terms
Related terms
- terrible
Further reading
- “terror” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Noun
terror c
- terror
Declension
Related terms
- terrordåd
- terrorhandling
- terrorism
- terrorist
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concern
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concern?, concernere (“I distinguish, have respect to”), from Latin concern? (“I mix, sift, or mingle together, as in a sieve”), combined form of con- + cern? (“distinguish”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?s?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?s??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
- Hyphenation: con?cern
Noun
concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns)
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- Synonym: interest
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- 2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148:
- At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern.
- 2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148:
Translations
Further reading
- concern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- concern in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Verb
concern (third-person singular simple present concerns, present participle concerning, simple past and past participle concerned)
- (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts xxviii. 31
- Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- our wars with France have always affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those we have had with any other nation
- 1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy
- ignorant, so far as the usual instruction was concerned
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts xxviii. 31
- (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended
- They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended
- (transitive) To make somebody worried.
Synonyms
- (to be of importance to): See also Thesaurus:pertain
Derived terms
- concernable
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English concern.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?s?rn/
- Hyphenation: con?cern
- Rhymes: -?rn
Noun
concern n (plural concerns, diminutive concerntje n)
- company, business, concern
Derived terms
- chemieconcern
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- what concerns you
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