minatory

Significat (anglès)

Threatening, menacing.

Sinònims

menacing

threatening

sinister

ominous

baleful

minacious

imminent

impending

forbidding

lowering

baneful

dark

impendent

angry

😠

nasty

sullen

Etimologia (anglès)

Borrowed from Middle French minatoire, from Late Latin minātōrius, from Latin minor, minārī (“to threaten, speak or act menacingly, hold out the threat of”, verbal derivative of minae, plural only, "threats, menaces, portents of evil") + -tōrius, deverbal adjective suffix originally forming derivatives from agent nouns ending in -tōr-, -tor; minae probably, if originally "projecting points, overhang," noun derivative of the verbal base *men- seen in ēminēre (“to stick out, protrude”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate to menace.