el
masculine
/oˈror/
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Translation
horror, dread
Word origin
From Latin horror ('a bristling, a shudder, dread'), from horrere ('to bristle, to shudder'). The same root gives English 'horror' and 'horrid'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- horror
- English cognates
- horror, horrid
Grammar
Gendermasculine
Pluralhorrores
Examples
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I felt horror when I saw the scene.
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I like horror films.
¡ , !
How awful, I forgot the meeting!
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The war left a trail of horror.
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He has a dread of spiders.
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