horreur

French

muteh

Definitions

horror (emotion)
horror something horrible
eyesore
(film) horror

Etymology

Inherited from Old French horror borrowed from Latin horror (trembling as with cold fear, a shaking, a bristling, terror).

Origin

Latin

horror

Gloss

trembling as with cold fear, a shaking, a bristling, terror

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

horror English
horreo Latin
horror Latin
horror, horrorem Latin
horrōrem Latin
Horror German
horror Hungarian
orrore Italian
orrorezza Italian
orroroso Italian
*ǵʰers- Proto-Indo-European
horer Middle English
horror Old French
horror Galician
oroare Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan