terror

Значение

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.

Пишется через дефис как

ter‧ror

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/

Этимология

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”).