horrorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)

語源

From 中期英語 horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native 古期英語 ōga.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA: /ˈhɒɹ.ə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈhɔɹ.ɚ/
• (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA: /ˈhɑɹ.ɚ/
• (some accents) IPA: /ˈhɔɚ/
• 異形同音異義語: whore, hoar (some rhotic American accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• 韻: -ɒɹə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: horr‧or

名詞

horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)

1. (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
   • 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato: A tragedy, published 1750, page 44:

     Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.

2. (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.

   I saw many horrors during the war.

   • 1898 July 3, Philadelphia Inquirer, page 22:

     The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.

   • 2009, Devin Watson, Horror Screenwriting‎:

     Could there be stories with more horror than these?

3. (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […] ”

4. (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
   • 1917 February 11, New York Times, Book reviews, page 52:

     Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’

   1. (countable) An individual work in this genre.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 156:

     A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House."

   • 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema:

     […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.

5. (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.

   The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!

6. (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
7. (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 53:

     `My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'

同意語

• nightmare

上位語

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Korean: 호러 (horeo)

Further reading

• “horror”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “horror”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “horror”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈhɔr.rɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɔr.ror]

名詞

horror m (genitive horrōris); third declension

1. bristling (standing on end)
2. shaking, shivering, chill
3. dread, terror, horror

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

• horrendus
• horridus
• horribilis
• horrificus

派生した語

参照

• “horror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “horror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "horror", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)