# 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 ōga.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA: /ˈhɒɹ.ə/
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈhɔɹ.ɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
** (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA: /ˈhɑɹ.ɚ/
** (some accents) IPA: /ˈhɔɚ/
* Homophones: whore, hoar (some rhotic American accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
* Rhymes: -ɒɹə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: horr‧or

### Noun

horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)
* (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
** 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato: A tragedy, published 1750, page 44:Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
* (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
    I saw many horrors during the war.
** 1898 July 3, Philadelphia Inquirer, page 22:The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
** 2009, Devin Watson, Horror Screenwriting‎:Could there be stories with more horror than these?
* (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
** 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […] ”
* (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
** 1917 February 11, New York Times, Book reviews, page 52:Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
** (countable) An individual work in this genre.
** 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 156:A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House."
** 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema:[…] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
* (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.
** 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 53:`My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'

#### Synonyms

* nightmare

#### Hypernyms

* speculative fiction

#### Derived terms

* analog horror
* analogue horror
* Belsen horror
* body horror
* chamber of horrors
* dry horrors
* ecohorror
* Eurohorror
* folk horror
* fridge horror
* horror autotoxicus
* horrorcore
* horrorfest
* horror film
* horror flick
* horrorful
* horrorist
* horrorize
* horrormeister
* horrormonger
* horror movie
* horror of horrors
* horrorous
* horror punk
* horrorscope
* horror show
* horror-show
* horrorsome
* horror story
* horror-stricken
* horror-struck
* horrorthon
* horror-thriller
* horror vacui
* horrorzine
* house of horrors
* J-horror
* midnight horror
* nonhorror
* outhorror
* psychological horror
* shock horror
* survival horror
* technohorror

#### Related terms

* horrendous
* horrible
* horrid
* horrific
* horrifical
* horrification
* horrify

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Further reading

* “horror”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “horror”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “horror”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English horror.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɦɔ.rɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: hor‧ror

### Noun

horror m (uncountable)
* horror (genre of fiction)

#### Derived terms

* horrorfilm

#### Related terms

* horreur
* horribel

### References

* van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “horror”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin horror.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɔˈroɾ]

### Noun

horror m (plural horrores)
* horror
    Synonyms: espanto, pavor, terror

#### Related terms

* horrorizar
* horroroso

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “horror”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “horror”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhorːor]
* Hyphenation: hor‧ror
* Rhymes: -or

### Noun

horror (plural horrorok)
* horror

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ 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

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *horzōs, remodeled into a rhotic-stem. Equivalent to horreo +‎ -or.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈhor.ror/, [ˈhɔrːɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈor.ror/, [ˈɔrːor]

### Noun

horror m (genitive horrōris); third declension
* bristling (standing on end)
* shaking, shivering, chill
* dread, terror, horror

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* horrendus
* horridus
* horribilis
* horrificus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: horror
* English: horror
* French: horreur
* Galician: horror
* Italian: orrore
* German: Horror
* Piedmontese: oror
* Portuguese: horror
* Romanian: oroare
* Sicilian: arruri
* Spanish: horror

### 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* horrour
* horrur

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

### Noun

horror oblique singular, f (oblique plural horrors, nominative singular horror, nominative plural horrors)
* horror or terror

#### Descendants

* English: horror
* Middle French: horreur
** French: horreur

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English horror.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxɔr.rɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrrɔr
* Syllabification: hor‧ror

### Noun

horror m inan
* (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
* horror movie
    Synonym: film grozy
* horror (literary genre)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* horror in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* horror in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin horrōrem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /oˈʁoʁ/ [oˈhoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /oˈʁoʁ/ [oˈhoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /oˈʁoɾ/ [oˈhoɾ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /oˈʁoʁ/ [oˈχoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /oˈʁoɻ/ [oˈhoɻ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈʁoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈʁoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈʁo.ɾi/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
* Hyphenation: hor‧ror

### Noun

horror m (plural horrores)
* horror
    Synonyms: temor, terror

#### Related terms

* horrendo
* hórrido
* horrífero
* horrífico
* horripilar
* horrível
* horrorizar
* horroroso

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English horror.

### Adjective

horror m or f or n (indeclinable)
* horror

#### Declension
### Noun

horror n (plural horror)
* horror

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin 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: /oˈroɾ/ [oˈroɾ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: ho‧rror

### Noun

horror m (plural horrores)
* horror; terror
    Synonyms: miedo, temor, terror

#### Derived terms

* horror al vacío

#### Related terms

* horrendo
* horrible
* hórrido
* horrífico
* horripilante
* horrorizar
* horroroso

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “horror”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “horror”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10