timorous
Betekenis (Engels)
- Tending to be easily frightened; shy, timid.
- (archaic) Feeling fear; afraid, fearful, frightened.
- (UK, dialectal) Fastidious in dressing.
- (UK, dialectal) Fired with intense feeling; passionate.
- (UK, dialectal) Hard to manage; difficult, tiresome.
- (obsolete) Causing dread or fear; dreadful, terrible.
- (obsolete) Humble, modest; also, showing reverence; respectful, reverent, reverential.
Concepten
Tegenovergesteld aan
afraid, cowardly, cautious, fearful, frightened, meek, shy, timid, uncourageous, unhearty, brave, daredevil, dauntless, temerarious, untimorous
Synoniemen
chicken hearted
weak kneed
lily livered
Vertalingen
timoré
tímido
timoroso
medonho
ängstlichUitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈtɪməɹəs/
Etymologie (Engels)
In summary
From Late Middle English timorous (“(adjective) fearful, frightened; causing fear, dreadful, terrible; deferential, modest; (noun) timid people collectively”), borrowed from Old French temoros, temorous, from Medieval Latin timōrōsus, from timōr- (the stem of Latin timor (“dread, fear”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’). Timor is derived from timeō (“to be afraid of, fear”) (further origin uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark”)) + -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns). Doublet of timoroso.
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