horrorとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold または fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”).

発音

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔɹɚ/
• (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹɚ/
• (Received 発音, New England) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒɹə/
• 韻: -ɒɹə(ɹ)

名詞

horror (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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 かつ 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^[1]:

     Could there be stories with more horror than these?

3. (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace‎^[2]:

     “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.’

5. (countable) An individual work in this genre.
   • 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema

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

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

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

7. (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
8. (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 53:

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

同意語

• nightmare

上位語

• speculative fiction

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• horror in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• horror in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
• horror at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *horzōs. Equivalent to horreo +‎ -or.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhor.ror/, [ˈhɔr.rɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ror/, [ˈɔr.rɔr]

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

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, 1883–1887)