FromProto-Italic*horzēō, fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰr̥s-éh₁-(ye)-ti, from*ǵʰers-(“to bristle”).[1]
Cognate withhīrtus,eris(“hedgehog”),Welshgarw(“rough”),Sanskritहृष्यति(hṛṣyati,“become erect or stiff or rigid; be glad”),हर्षयति(harṣayati,“to excite”),Avestan𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬱𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬨𐬥𐬀(zarəšiiamna,“excited”).
horreō (present infinitivehorrēre,perfect activehorruī);second conjugation, nosupine stem,third person-only in thepassive
- tostanderect,stand on end
- totremble,shiver
8CE,
Ovid,
Fasti6.19–20:
- horrueram tacitōque animum pallōre fatēbar;
tum dea, quōs fēcit, sustulit ipsa metūs- I had trembled, and by my speechless pallor was betraying my emotion; then the goddess – she who caused it [to happen] – removed [my] fears herself.
(The poet, writing about the month of June, first encountersJuno (mythology).)
- todread, beafraid of
- to befrightful
- to behorrified at or of
- Balkano-Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Borrowings:
horreō
- dative/ablativesingular ofhorreum
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “horreō”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page290
- “horreo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “horreo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- horreo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- his hair stands on end:capilli horrent
