terror

See also: Terror

English

Alternative forms

• terrour (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tres-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti

Proto-Italic *troseō

Latin terreō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin terrorlbor.

Old French terreur

Middle French terreurbor.

Middle English terrour

English terror

From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“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): /ˈtɛɹɚ/
  • (some accents) IPA^(key): /tɛɚ/

  • Audio (US); /ˈtɛɹɚ/:

    (file)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹə/
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈteɹə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɾəɾ/
• (Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɾə/
• (Philadelphia, merry–Murray merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌɹɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: ter‧ror
• Homophones: terra, (both non-rhotic) Terra; (Mary–marry–merry merger) tearer, tare, (some American dialects) tear

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:

     "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, 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, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     The terrors of the storm

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 508:

     Paradoxically, the sharp and unambiguous formulas in which Lenin called for the use of terror and denied the possibility of democracy and freedom testified to the fact that freedom had not yet been completely eradicated.

4. (uncountable) Terrorism.

   a terror attack

   the War on Terror

   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎^[2], 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

• agroterror
• antiterror
• balance of terror
• bioterror
• counterterror
• cyberterror
• ecoterror
• holy terror
• megaterror
• narcoterror
• night terror
• nonterror
• pterror
• red terror
• reign of terror
• Reign of Terror
• saffron terror
• sleep terror
• stochastic terror
• terrification
• terror bird
• terrorbomb
• terror bomb
• terror-bomb
• terror bombing
• terror-bombing
• terror cell
• terrorcore
• terrorful
• terrorise
• terrorism
• terrorist
• terroristic
• terrorize
• terrorized
• terrorless
• terrormonger
• terrorsome
• terrorsploitation
• terror-stricken
• terrorstricken
• terrorstruck
• terrorwave
• white terror
• yellow terror

Related terms

• in terrorem
• terrible
• terrific
• terrify

Descendants

• → Danish: terror
• → Hungarian: terror
• Norwegian:
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: terror
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: terror
• → Polish: terror
• → Swedish: terror

Translations

extreme fear

• Albanian: terror (sq), tmerr (sq), lebeti (sq) f
• Arabic: رُعْب m (ruʕb), هَوْل m (hawl), ذُعْر m (ḏuʕr), خَوْف (ar) m (ḵawf)
• Armenian: ահ (hy) (ah), սարսափ (hy) (sarsapʻ)
• Azerbaijani: dəhşət (az)
• Belarusian: жах m (žax)
• Bulgarian: у́жас (bg) m (úžas)
• Catalan: terror (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 恐怖 (hung² bou³)

  Mandarin: 恐怖 (zh) (kǒngbù)

• Czech: hrůza (cs) f
• Danish: terror c
• Egyptian: (nrw)
• Esperanto: teruro (eo)
• Finnish: kauhu (fi)
• French: terreur (fr) f, effroi (fr) m
• Galician: terror m, espanto m
• German: Schrecken (de) m, Grauen (de) n, schreckliche Furcht f
• Greek: τρόμος (el) m (trómos)

  Ancient Greek: δεῖμα n (deîma), πτῆξις f (ptêxis), πτοία f (ptoía), ὀρρωδία f (orrhōdía)

• Hebrew: אֵימָה (he) f (eimá)
• Hindi: दहशत (hi) f (dahśat), वहशत (hi) f (vahśat), सहम (hi) m (saham)
• Hittite: 𒄩𒌅𒂵𒀀𒋻 (ḫa-tu-ga-a-tar)
• Hungarian: rettegés (hu), rémület (hu), borzalom (hu)
• Icelandic: ógn (is) f, skelfing f, hræðsla (is) f
• Indonesian: kengerian (id)
• Irish: uafás m, scéin f
• Japanese: 恐怖 (ja) (きょうふ, kyōfu)
• Kazakh: қорқыныш (qorqınıš)
• Khmer: ភេរវារម្មណ៍ (pheirĕəʼviərɑm)
• Korean: 공포(恐怖) (ko) (gongpo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sehm (ku), dehşet (ku)

• Kyrgyz: коркунуч (ky) (korkunuc)
• Ladino: espanto, estremisyon, terror
• Latin: terror m
• Macedonian: ужас m (užas)
• Malagasy: tahotra (mg)
• Malay: kengerian, dahsyat (ms), seram (ms)
• Malayalam: ഭീകരത (ml) (bhīkarata), നടുക്കം (ml) (naṭukkaṁ)
• Marathi: दहशत f (dahśat)
• Middle English: terrour
• Navajo: ił hóóyééʼ
• Nepali: भय (bhaya), त्रास (trās), त्रास (trās)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: terror (no) m

  Nynorsk: terror m

• Occitan: terror (oc) f
• Old English: gryre m
• Pashto: دهشت (ps) m (dahšat), وحشت m (vahšat)
• Persian: وَحْشَت (fa) (vahšat), دَهْشَت (fa) (dahšat)
• Plautdietsch: Schrakj m
• Polish: groza (pl) f
• Portuguese: terror (pt) m
• Romanian: spaimă (ro), teroare (ro) f
• Russian: у́жас (ru) m (úžas)
• Sanskrit: त्रास (sa) (trāsa), भय (sa) (bhaya)
• Scottish Gaelic: maoim f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏жа̄с m

  Latin: ȕžās (sh) m

• Slovak: hrôza f
• Slovene: groza (sl) f
• Spanish: terror (es) m
• Swedish: terror (sv)
• Tajik: даҳшат (dahšat), ваҳшат (vahšat)
• Tocharian B: empelñe, īwate
• Turkish: dehşet (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: دهشت (dehşet), قورقو (korku), وحشت (vahşet)

• Ukrainian: жах m (žax)
• Urdu: دَہْشَت f (dahśat), وَحْشَت (ur) f (vahśat), سَہْم m (sahm)
• Uzbek: dahshat (uz), qoʻrquv (uz), vahshat (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự khiếp (vi)

instance of being intensely terrified

• Finnish: kauhu (fi)

action or quality of causing dread

• Arabic: ترويع
• Finnish: kauhu (fi), terrori (fi)
• Hungarian: rettenet (hu), borzalom (hu), terror (hu)
• Malayalam: ഭീകരത (ml) (bhīkarata)
• Polish: terror (pl) m

something causing fear

• Armenian: սարսափ (hy) (sarsapʻ)
• Catalan: terror (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詭異的事物 / 诡异的事物, 恐怖 (zh) (kǒngbù)

• Dutch: verschrikking (nl) f
• Esperanto: teruraĵo
• Finnish: kauhu (fi)
• French: terreur (fr) f
• Galician: terror m
• German: Terror (de) m
• Greek: τρόμος (el) m (trómos), φόβητρο (el) n (fóvitro)

  Ancient Greek: δεινόν n (deinón)

• Hungarian: rém (hu)
• Japanese: 恐怖 (ja) (きょうふ, kyōfu)
• Korean: 공포(恐怖) (ko) (gongpo)
• Malayalam: ഭീകരം (ml) (bhīkaraṁ)
• Middle English: ferdnesse
• Portuguese: terror (pt) m
• Russian: у́жас (ru) m (úžas)
• Spanish: terror (es) m

terrorism

• Abkhaz: атеррор (atʼerror)
• Arabic: إِرْهَاب m (ʔirhāb)
• Belarusian: тэра́кт m (terákt), тэро́р m (terór), тэрары́зм m (terarýzm)
• Bulgarian: теро́р (bg) m (terór), терори́зъм (bg) m (terorízăm)
• Dutch: terreur (nl)
• French: terrorisme (fr) m
• Galician: terrorismo (gl) m
• Hebrew: טֶרוֹר (he) m (téror)
• Hungarian: terror (hu)
• Malayalam: ഭീകരത (ml) (bhīkarata)
• Marathi: दहशतवाद m (dahśatvād)
• Russian: тера́кт (ru) m (terákt), терро́р (ru) m (terrór), террори́зм (ru) m (terrorízm)
• Ukrainian: тера́кт m (terákt), теро́р m (terór), терори́зм m (terorýzm)

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

Translations to be checked

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} děs (cs) m, ^{(please verify)} hrůza (cs) f, ^{(please verify)} teror (cs) m
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} teroro, ^{(please verify)} teruro (eo)
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ზარი (ka) (zari)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} kengerian (id)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} terrore (it) m
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} terror m
• Old English: ^{(please verify)} eġe
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} teroare (ro) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} терор m, ^{(please verify)} ужас m

  Latin: ^{(please verify)} teror (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} užas (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} terror

• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} strah (sl) m
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} kikuli class 7/8
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} skräck (sv) c
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} terör (tr)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} теро́р m (terór)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} nỗi khiếp sợ sự khủng bố
• Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} bambadin

Adjective

terror (comparative more terror, superlative most terror)

1. (Philippines, slang) A strict teacher who fails most of the students.

   I have a terror math teacher.

See also

• alarm
• consternation
• dismay
• dread
• fright

References

• “terror”, in 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “terror”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• rorter

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terrōrem. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [təˈrur]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [təˈro]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [təˈror]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [teˈroɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [teˈror]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

terror m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural terrors)

1. terror, horror

Danish

Etymology

From English terror, from Latin terror.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛrər/, [ˈtˢaɐ̯ɐ], [ˈtˢæːɐ], [ˈtˢawɐ]

Noun

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

1. terror

Declension

Declension of terror

common gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	terror	terroren
genitive	terrors	terrorens

Derived terms

• terroraktion
• terrorangreb
• terroranslag
• terrorattentat
• terrorbalance
• terrorcelle
• terrorgruppe
• terrorhandling
• terrorisere
• terrorisme
• terrorist
• terrormål
• terrororganisation

References

• “terror” in Den Danske Ordbog

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin terrōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈroɾ/ [t̪ɛˈroɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: te‧rror

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

1. terror

   Synonyms: espanto, horror, pavor

Related terms

• aterrorizar
• terrorífico
• terrorismo
• terrorista

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “terror”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “terror”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “terror”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “terror”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “terror”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Hungarian

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English terror, from Latin terror.

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)

	singular	plural
nominative	terror	terrorok
accusative	terrort	terrorokat
dative	terrornak	terroroknak
instrumental	terrorral	terrorokkal
causal-final	terrorért	terrorokért
translative	terrorrá	terrorokká
terminative	terrorig	terrorokig
essive-formal	terrorként	terrorokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	terrorban	terrorokban
superessive	terroron	terrorokon
adessive	terrornál	terroroknál
illative	terrorba	terrorokba
sublative	terrorra	terrorokra
allative	terrorhoz	terrorokhoz
elative	terrorból	terrorokból
delative	terrorról	terrorokról
ablative	terrortól	terroroktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	terroré	terroroké
non-attributive possessive – plural	terroréi	terrorokéi

Possessive forms of terror

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	terrorom	terroraim
2nd person sing.	terrorod	terroraid
3rd person sing.	terrora	terrorai
1st person plural	terrorunk	terroraink
2nd person plural	terrorotok	terroraitok
3rd person plural	terroruk	terroraik

Derived terms

• terrortámadás

Further reading

• terror in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Latin

Etymology

From terreō (“to frighten”) + -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛr.rɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛr.ror]

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	terror	terrōrēs
genitive	terrōris	terrōrum
dative	terrōrī	terrōribus
accusative	terrōrem	terrōrēs
ablative	terrōre	terrōribus
vocative	terror	terrōrēs

Related terms

• terreō
• terribilis
• terribilitās f
• terricula n pl or f

Descendants

• Sicilian: tirruri
• → Catalan: terror m or f (learned)
• → Finnish: terrori (learned)
• → Old French: terreur f, terrour
  • Middle French: terreur f
    • French: terreur f
      • →? Dutch: terreur
        • → Indonesian: teror
      • → Persian: ترور (teror, “assassination”)
      • → Romanian: teroare f
    • → Middle English: terrour, terrawr
      • English: terror
      • Scots: terror
• → Galician: terror (learned)
• → German: Terror (learned)
• →? Italian: terrore (learned)
• →? Piedmontese: teror (learned)
• → Portuguese: terror (learned)
• →? Russian: терро́р (terrór) (learned)
• → Serbo-Croatian: tèrōr (learned)
• → Spanish: terror (learned)

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^[3], 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʰerru̞r]

Noun

terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

1. terror

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• terrorregime

References

• “terror” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tres-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti

Proto-Italic *troseō

Latin terreō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin terrorlbor.

Old French terreur

Middle French terreurbor.

Middle English terrour

English terrorbor.

Polish terror

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛr.rɔr/

• Audio:

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• 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
nominative	terror
genitive	terroru
dative	terrorowi
accusative	terror
instrumental	terrorem
locative	terrorze
vocative	terrorze

Derived terms

adjectives

• antyterrorystyczny
• terrorystyczny

nouns

• antyterrorysta
• terrorysta
• terrorystka
• terroryzm

verbs

• sterroryzować
• terroryzować

Further reading

• “terror”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “terror”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin terrōrem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /teˈʁoʁ/ [teˈhoh]

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

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈʁoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈʁoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈʁo.ɾi/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• 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.

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   • 2009, Robson Campos De Abreu, Teatro para Mágicos, Clube de Autores, page 60:

     A música é tão importante que existe até categoria de premiação no Oscar, pois a mesma ajuda a criar todo o clima que vemos nos filmes[,] seja este um filme divertido e infantil, ou seja,^[sic] aquele terror super hiper mega blaster assustador.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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!

Derived terms

• antiterror
• antiterrorista
• aterrorizar
• terrorismo
• terrorista

Further reading

• “terror”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “terror”, in Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss [Houaiss Electronic Dictionary] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: UOL, 2004–2026
• “terror”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “terror”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “terror”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tres-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti

Proto-Italic *troseō

Latin terreō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin terrōremlbor.

Spanish terror

Learned borrowing from Latin terrōrem.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

1. terror
2. (genre) horror

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• terrible

Further reading

• “terror”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terror. First attested in 1617.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛrɔr/

• Audio (Småland):

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Noun

terror c

1. terror

Declension

Declension of terror

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	terror	terrors
	definite	terrorn	terrorns
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• brevterror
• ljudterror
• telefonterror
• terroraktion
• terrorangrepp
• terrorattack
• terrorattentat
• terrorbalans
• terrorbekämpning
• terrorberedskap
• terrorbombning
• terrorbrott
• terrorcell
• terrordåd
• terrorgrupp
• terrorhandling
• terrorhot
• terrorkrig
• terrorkrigföring
• terrorledare
• terrornätverk
• terroroffer
• terrororganisation
• terrorregemente
• terrorregim
• terrorstämpel
• terrorstämpla
• terrorstämpling
• terrorvapen
• terrorverksamhet
• terrorvåg
• terrorvälde

Related terms

• terrorisera
• terrorism
• terrorist

Further reading

• “terror”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)