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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.

horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)

  1. (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.
  2. (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[2]:
      Could there be stories with more horror than these?
  3. (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  4. (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.’
    1. (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.
  5. (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
    The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
  6. (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  7. (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.

intense distressing fear or repugnance

thing that which excites horror

literary genre

informal: intense anxiety

Translations to be checked

Borrowed from Latin horror.

horror m (plural horrors)

  1. horror, disgust
    Synonyms: repulsió, aversió
  2. terror
    Synonyms: terror, por
  3. (figurative) person or thing inspiring the above feelings

Borrowed from English horror.

horror m (uncountable, no diminutive)

  1. horror (genre of fiction)

Learned borrowing from Latin horror.

horror m (plural horrores)

  1. horror
    Synonyms: espanto, pavor, terror

Borrowed from Latin horror.[1]

horror (plural horrorok)

  1. horror

  2. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

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

horror m (genitive horrōris); third declension

  1. bristling (standing on end)
  2. shaking, shivering, chill
  3. dread, terror, horror

Third-declension noun.

Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

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

  1. horror or terror

Borrowed from English horror.

horror m inan

  1. (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
  2. horror movie
    Synonym: film grozy
  3. horror (literary genre)

Learned borrowing from Latin horrōrem.

horror m (plural horrores)

  1. horror
    Synonyms: temor, terror

Unadapted borrowing from English horror.

horror m or f or n (indeclinable)

  1. horror

Declension of horror (invariable)

| | singular | plural | | | | | | --------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | | | masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | | nominative-accusative | indefinite | horror | horror | horror | horror | | definite | — | — | — | — | | | genitive-dative | indefinite | horror | horror | horror | horror | | definite | — | — | — | — | |

horror n (plural **horror)

  1. horror

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,[1] like Italian ordo, Old French ord, French ordure, Old Catalan hòrreu, horresa, Old Occitan orre, orrezeza, Romanian urdoare.

horror m (plural horrores)

  1. horror; terror
    Synonyms: miedo, temor, terror
  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “horror”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos