horror
Latin
noun
Definitions
- bristling (standing on end)
- shaking, shivering, chill
- dread, terror, horror
Etymology
Suffix from Latin horreo root from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (bristle, surprised, stand erect, stiff).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰers-
Gloss
bristle, surprised, stand erect, stiff
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
😯 🙀 🤩
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- J-horror English
- ecohorror English
- horrification English
- horrify English
- horror English
- horrorcore English
- horrorfest English
- horrormeister English
- horrorsome English
- nonhorror English
- survival horror English
- technohorror English
- abhorreō Latin
- abhorrēre Latin
- herna Latin
- hispidus Latin
- horrendus Latin
- horreo Latin
- horridus Latin
- horripilare Latin
- horripilātus Latin
- horripilō, horripilāre, horripilo Latin
- horror, horrorem Latin
- horrōrem Latin
- Horror German
- Horrorfilm German
- horror Hungarian
- horrorfilm Hungarian
- orrore Italian
- orrorezza Italian
- orroroso Italian
- horreur French
- χέρσος Ancient Greek
- *pil- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰer(s)-uk-eh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰers- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰr̥s-éh₁-(ye)-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰr̥séh₁(ye)ti Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰórsōs Proto-Indo-European
- ホラー Japanese
- horror Polish
- horer Middle English
- horror Old French
- horror Galician
- *horzēō Proto-Italic
- ځیږ Pashto, Pushto