pavor

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pavor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pavor, pavōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˈβoɾ]

Noun

pavor m (plural pavores)

1. (literary) dread

   Synonyms: espanto, horror, terror

Related terms

• espavorecer
• pavoroso

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pavor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “pavor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pavor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pavor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Latin

Etymology

From paveō (“tremble or quake with fear”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.u̯or/, [ˈpäu̯ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.vor/, [ˈpäːvor]

Noun

pavor m (genitive pavōris); third declension

1. The act of trembling, quaking, throbbing or panting with fear.
2. Fear, alarm, terror, fright, panic.

   Synonyms: terror, timor, metus

3. Fear through expectation, dread, thrill, anxiety, trepidation.

Usage notes

• The old nominative singular form pavos is also found.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pavor	pavōrēs
Genitive	pavōris	pavōrum
Dative	pavōrī	pavōribus
Accusative	pavōrem	pavōrēs
Ablative	pavōre	pavōribus
Vocative	pavor	pavōrēs

Related terms

• pavefaciō
• paveō
• pavēscō
• pavibundus
• pavidē
• pavidus
• pavitātiō
• pavitō

Descendants

In several cases, the ending was substituted by -ūra.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: pavor
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: paura, pavore
  • Neapolitan: paura, pagura, pavura
  • Sicilian: paura, pagura (Calabrian)
• North Italian:
  • Emilian: paùra, por, pagura
  • Friulian: pôre
  • Istriot: pagura
  • Ligurian: poîa, paur, póia, puéia
  • Old Lombard: paor, pagora
    • Lombard: pora, pagura, (Alpine:) peuira
  • Piedmontese: paur, pòur, por, pòj, paùra
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: por
  • Franco-Provençal: pouere, pouer, pour, poure, (Valdôtain:) peuire, peuir, póira, péiri, pouir
  • Old French: peor
    • Bourguignon: pô
    • French: peur
    • Walloon: peu
  • Old Occitan: paor
    • Occitan: paur, pòr
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: por (Ribagorçan)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pavor
    • Galician: pavor
    • Portuguese: pavor
  • Spanish: pavor, pavura
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: pore
• Vulgar Latin: *pavōrōsum (see there for further descendants)

References

• “pavor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pavor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pavor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pavor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pavor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pavor, from Latin pavōrem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈvoʁ/ [paˈvoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈvoʁ/ [paˈvoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /paˈvoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /paˈvoʁ/ [paˈvoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈvoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈvoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈvoɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈboɾ/ [pɐˈβoɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈvo.ɾi/

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: pa‧vor

Noun

pavor m (plural pavores)

1. intense fear, dread

   Synonyms: horror, medo

Derived terms

• espavorecer
• espavorir
• espavorizar
• pavoroso

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pavōrem. It may be a semi-learned term in its current form, preserving the intervocalic 'v' unlike other non-Iberian Romance cognates (compare the attested Old Spanish form paor); descendants of Latin metus (e.g. Spanish miedo) were the primary words for "fear" on the Iberian peninsula. See also the dialectal pavura, with a change of suffix as with Italian paura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈboɾ/ [paˈβ̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pa‧vor

Noun

pavor m (plural pavores)

1. dread, fright, fear

   Synonyms: miedo, temor, horror

Derived terms

• empavorecer
• pavoroso

 

Related terms

• impávido
• pávido

 

Further reading

• “pavor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

Swedish

Noun

pavor

1. indefinite plural of pava