terrorとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹɚ/, in some accents IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɚ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹə/
• 韻: -ɛɹə(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: ter‧ror
• 異形同音異義語: tare, tear (some American accents)
• 異形同音異義語: terra, Terra (non-rhotic accents)

名詞

terror (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 terrors)

1. (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fear

   • 1794, William Godwin, Things as they are; or, The adventures of Caleb

     The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     "How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination."

   • 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 9:

     Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.

2. (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
   • 1921, Edith Birkhead, The tale of terror: a study of the Gothic romance
3. (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
   • 1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, OCLC 230944105, page 474:

     The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson

     The terrors of the storm

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.

4. (uncountable) terrorism

   a terror attack; the War on Terror

   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎^[2], number Summer 2019:

     Rank-and-file progressives don’t usually think of the immigration policies they support—expanding refugee quotas, easing restrictions on some classes of immigrants, and ending family separation—as an endorsement of detention, deportation, and racialized terror.

派生語

関連する語

参考

• alarm
• fright
• consternation
• dread
• dismay

参照

• terror at OneLook Dictionary Search
• terror in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• terror in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• terror in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

アナグラム

• rorter

Latin

語源

From terreō (“frighten, terrify”) +‎ -or.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.ror/, [ˈt̪ɛr.rɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.ror/, [ˈt̪ɛr.rɔr]

名詞

terror m (genitive terrōris); third declension

1. a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic
2. an object of fear or dread

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

派生した語

参照

• terror in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• terror in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere
    
  • terror, panic seizes some one: terror incidit alicui
    
  • terror, panic seizes some one: terror invadit in aliquem (まれに alicui, after Livy aliquem)
    
  • to overwhelm some one with terror: in terrorem conicere aliquem