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单词 terror
释义

terror

See also: 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 terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/
    • (some accents) IPA(key): /tɛɚ/
    • Audio (US)(file)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛɹ.ə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: ter‧ror
  • Homophones: tare, tear (some American accents)
  • Homophones: terra, Terra (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

terror (countable and uncountable, plural terrors)

  1. (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.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
      "How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination."
    • 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 9:
      Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
  2. (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
  3. (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
    • 1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, OCLC 230944105, page 474:
      The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
    • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson
      The terrors of the storm
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
  4. (uncountable) Terrorism.
    a terror attack
    the War on Terror
    • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎, number Summer 2019:
      Rank-and-file progressives don’t usually think of the immigration policies they support—expanding refugee quotas, easing restrictions on some classes of immigrants, and ending family separation—as an endorsement of detention, deportation, and racialized terror.
  5. (pathology, countable) A night terror.

Derived terms

  • holy terror
  • night terror
  • red terror
  • reign of terror
  • sleep terror
  • terrorism
  • terrorist
  • terrorize
  • terrorized
  • terrorsome
  • terror-stricken
  • white terror
  • in terrorem
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • terrify
  • terrorism
  • terrorist

Translations

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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): /təˈro/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /teˈroɾ/

Noun

terror m or f (plural terrors)

  1. terror, horror

Danish

Noun

terror c (singular definite terroren, not used in plural form)

  1. terror

References

  • “terror” in Den Danske Ordbog

Galician

Etymology

From Latin terror.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tɛˈroɾ]

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

  1. terror
    Synonyms: espanto, horror, pavor
  • aterrorizar
  • terrorífico
  • terrorismo
  • terrorista

References

  • “terror” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “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.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛrːor]
  • Hyphenation: ter‧ror
  • Rhymes: -or

Noun

terror (plural terrorok)

  1. terror (especially the action or quality of causing dread)
    Synonym: megfélemlítés

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singularplural
nominativeterrorterrorok
accusativeterrortterrorokat
dativeterrornakterroroknak
instrumentalterrorralterrorokkal
causal-finalterrorértterrorokért
translativeterrorráterrorokká
terminativeterrorigterrorokig
essive-formalterrorkéntterrorokként
essive-modal——
inessiveterrorbanterrorokban
superessiveterroronterrorokon
adessiveterrornálterroroknál
illativeterrorbaterrorokba
sublativeterrorraterrorokra
allativeterrorhozterrorokhoz
elativeterrorbólterrorokból
delativeterrorrólterrorokról
ablativeterrortólterroroktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular		terroréterroroké
non-attributive
possessive - plural		terroréiterrorokéi
Possessive forms of terror
possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
1st person sing.terroromterroraim
2nd person sing.terrorodterroraid
3rd person sing.terroraterrorai
1st person pluralterrorunkterroraink
2nd person pluralterrorotokterroraitok
3rd person pluralterrorukterroraik

Derived terms

  • terrortámadás

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • terror in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From terreō (“frighten, terrify”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈter.ror/, [ˈt̪ɛrːɔr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈter.ror/, [ˈt̪ɛrːor]

Noun

terror m (genitive terrōris); third declension

  1. a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic
    Synonyms: pavor, timor, metus
  2. an object of fear or dread

Declension

Third-declension noun.

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeterrorterrōrēs
Genitiveterrōristerrōrum
Dativeterrōrīterrōribus
Accusativeterrōremterrōrēs
Ablativeterrōreterrōribus
Vocativeterrorterrōrēs
  • terreō
  • terribilis
  • terribilitās
  • terricula

Descendants

  • Catalan: terror
  • → English: terror
  • → Finnish: terrori
  • French: terreur
  • Galician: terror
  • → German: Terror
  • Italian: terrore
  • Piedmontese: teror
  • Portuguese: terror
  • Romanian: teroare
  • → Russian: терро́р (terrór)
  • Sicilian: tirruri
  • Spanish: terror

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere
    • terror, panic seizes some one: terror incidit alicui
    • terror, panic seizes some one: terror invadit in aliquem (rarely alicui, after Livy aliquem)
    • to overwhelm some one with terror: in terrorem conicere aliquem

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

Noun

terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

  1. 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)

  1. terror

Derived terms

  • terrorhandling
  • terrorregime

References

  • “terror” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, from Old French terreur (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛr.rɔr/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛrrɔr
  • Syllabification: ter‧ror

Noun

terror m inan

  1. (politics) terror (policy of political repression and violence intended to subdue political opposition)

Declension

Declension of terror
singular
nominativeterror
genitiveterroru
dativeterrorowi
accusativeterror
instrumentalterrorem
locativeterrorze
vocativeterrorze

Derived terms

adjectives
  • antyterrorystyczny
  • terrorystyczny
nouns
  • antyterrorysta
  • terrorysta
  • terrorystka
  • terroryzm
verbs
  • sterroryzować
  • terroryzować

Further reading

  • terror in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • terror in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terrōrem.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /teˈʁoʁ/ [teˈhoh]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /teˈʁoɾ/ [teˈhoɾ]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /teˈʁoʁ/ [teˈχoχ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /teˈʁoɻ/ [teˈhoɻ]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨˈʁoɾ/

  • Hyphenation: ter‧ror

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

  1. terror (intense fear)
    • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 493:
      Os olhos do elfo se arregalavam de terror e ele tremia.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. (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[1].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teˈroɾ/ [t̪eˈroɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: te‧rror

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

  1. horror (genre)
  2. terror

Derived terms

  • aterrorizar
  • cine de terror
  • película de terror
  • terrorífico
  • terrorismo
  • terrorista
  • terrible

References

  1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading

  • “terror”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

terror c

  1. terror

Declension

Declension of terror 
Uncountable
IndefiniteDefinite
Nominativeterrorterrorn——
Genitiveterrorsterrorns——

Derived terms

Derived terms
  • terrorisera
  • terrorism
  • terrorist
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