terror

Significado (Inglês)

1. Intense dread, fright, or fear.
2. The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
3. Something or someone that causes such fear.
4. Terrorism.
5. A night terror.
6. (slang) A strict teacher that fails most of the students.

Hifenizado como

ter‧ror

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/

Etimologia (Inglês)

From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur (“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”).