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Horror is from Lat. _horrere_, to bristle, and may be rendered 'shagginess' or 'ruggedness,' just as
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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Te magna rerum PraeCes » & aurei flegina mundi « militiam fui Hortata non horrere Gnati p LiSRR Epoion. ji Nec focias trepidafe pagnas:
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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hirsute is from Latin hirsutus “rough, shaggy,” related to hirtus “shaggy,” and possibly to horrere “to bristle with fear.”
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from horrere we also get the words “horror” and “horripilate” (which means making the hair stand up in fear), which also related to the word “hedgehog” (!)
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sakhalinskii commented on the word horrere
Latin, 'to shudder'.
July 31, 2008