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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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qualm
English
Alternative forms
- calm (dialectal)
Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English qualm, cwalm (“death, sickness, plague”), which is from Old English cwealm (West Saxon: "death, disaster, plague"), ?tcualm (Anglian: "utter destruction"), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm (“killing, death, destruction”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?elH- (“to stick, pierce; pain, injury, death”), whence also quell. Although the sense development is possible, this has the problem that there are no attestations in intermediate senses before the appearance of "pang of apprehension, etc." in the 16th century. The alternative etymology is from Dutch kwalm or German Qualm "steam, vapor, mist," earlier "daze, stupefaction", which is from the root of German quellen (“to stream, well up”). The sense "feeling of faintness" is from 1530; "uneasiness, doubt" from 1553; "scruple of conscience" from 1649.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kw?m/, /kw?m/, /kw?lm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kw??m/, /kw??m/
Noun
qualm (plural qualms)
- A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. [from 16th c.]
- A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. [from 16th c.]
- A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now often in negative constructions.) [from 17th c.]
- (archaic, Britain dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
- (archaic, Britain dialectal) A calamity or disaster.
Synonyms
- compunction
- misgiving
- scruple
- unease/uneasiness
- See Thesaurus:apprehension
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
qualm (third-person singular simple present qualms, present participle qualming, simple past and past participle qualmed)
- (intransitive) To have a sickly feeling.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “qualm”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cwalm, cualm, qwalm, qualme
Etymology
From Old English cwealm, from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwalm/
Noun
qualm
- Plague, disease or sickness; that which afflicts.
- The effects, fruits, or ravages of plague.
- (rare) Killing (as a concept or as an instance)
Descendants
- English: qualm (possibly)
- Scots: qualm (possibly)
References
- “qualm, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-12.
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