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Where does “טרור” come from?

טרור (Hebrew) comes from English Terror, from Middle English terrour, from Middle French terreur, from Old French terreur, from Latin terror, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius.

טרור (Hebrew): Terror, terrorism

Definitions

  1. Terror, terrorism

Ancestry of “טרור”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishTerror—
2Middle Englishterrour—
3Middle Frenchterreurterror
4Old Frenchterreurterror
5Latinterrora dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic; an...
6Latinfaciō—
7Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
8Latin-tōrius—
9Latin-tor-er
10Proto-Italic-tōr—
11Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
12Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
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