horror

The story

1. Latin · derived fromhorror“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”
2. Old French · derived fromhorror
3. Middle English · inherited fromhorer
4. English todayhorror

From Middle English 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 Old English ōga.

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