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threat
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: thr?t, IPA(key): /???t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English threte, thret, thrat, thræt, threat, from Old English þr?at (“crowd, swarm, troop, army, press; pressure, trouble, calamity, oppression, force, violence, threat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrautaz, closely tied to Proto-Germanic *þraut? (“displeasure, complaint, grievance, labour, toil”), from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to squeeze, push, press”), whence also Middle Low German dr?t (“threat, menace, danger”), Middle High German dr?z (“annoyance, disgust, horror, terror, fright”), Icelandic þraut (“struggle, labour, distress”), Latin tr?d? (“push”, verb).
Noun
threat (plural threats)
- An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3
- There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3
- An indication of potential or imminent danger.
- A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
Usage notes
Adjectives at least commonly used along with the noun: existential, possible
Derived terms
- idle threat
Related terms
- threaten
- threatening
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English threten, from Old English þr?atian (“to press, oppress, repress, correct, threaten”). Akin to Middle Dutch dr?ten (“to threaten”).
Verb
threat (third-person singular simple present threats, present participle threating, simple past and past participle threated)
- (transitive) To press; urge; compel.
- (transitive, archaic) To threaten.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
- An hideous Geant horrible and hye, / That with his talnesse seemd to threat the skye […]
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, V. i. 37:
- O yes, and soundless too; / For you have stolen their buzzing, Antony, / And very wisely threat before you sting.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
- (intransitive) To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.
Anagrams
- Hatter, hatter, rateth, that're
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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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