pavor

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

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

pavor m (plural pavores)

1. (literary) dread

   Synonyms: espanto, horror, terror

• 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 [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.wɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.vor]

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.

• The old nominative singular form pavos is also found.

Third-declension noun.

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

• “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

From Old Galician-Portuguese pavor, from Latin pavōrem.

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

pavor m (plural pavores)

1. intense fear, dread

   Synonyms: horror, medo

• espavorecer
• espavorir
• espavorizar
• pavoroso

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.^[1]

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

pavor m (plural pavores)

1. dread, fright, fear

   Synonyms: miedo, temor, horror

• “pavor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

pavor

1. indefinite plural of pava