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Horror French Latin 3341.Horror 英 Hɒrə]美 Hɔrɚ 释义

正面 3341.horror
英 ['hɒrə]美 ['hɔrɚ]

背面
释义:
n. 惊骇;惨状;极端厌恶;令人恐怖的事物
例句:
1. Somehow he tells these stories without a note of horror.不知为什么他讲这些故事时一点都不害怕。

1、con- "together" + sens- + -us.2、字面含义为:feel together.
horror 厌恶,恐惧来自拉丁语horrere,因恐惧而毛发竖立,颤抖,来自PIE*ghers,竖立的毛发,硬毛,词源同hair.引申词义厌恶,恐惧。
horror (n.)early 14c., from Old French horror (12c., Modern French horreur) and directly from Latin horror "dread, veneration, religious awe," a figurative use, literally "a shaking, trembling, shudder, chill," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder," from PIE root *ghers- "to bristle" (cognates: Sanskrit harsate "bristles," Avestan zarshayamna- "ruffling one's feathers," Latin eris (genitive) "hedgehog," Welsh garw "rough"). As a genre in film, 1934. Chamber of horrors originally (1849) was a gallery of notorious criminals in Madame Tussaud's wax exhibition."

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