pavor

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.wor/, [ˈpa.wɔr]

pavor m (genitive pavōris); third declension

1. The act of trembling, quaking, throbbing or panting with fear.
2. Fear, alarm, terror, fright, panic.
3. Fear through expectation, dread, thrill, anxiety, trepidation.

• The old nominative singular form pavos is also found.

Third declension.

• 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From Old Portuguese pavor, from Latin pavor, pavōrem.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈvoɾ/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /paˈvoɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈvoɻ/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /paˈvox/
• Hyphenation: pa‧vor

pavor m (plural pavores)

1. intense fear, dread

• (fear): horror, medo

• espavorecer
• espavorir
• espavorizar
• pavoroso

From Latin pavōrem, singular accusative of pavor. It may be a semi-learned term in its current form, preserving the intervocalic 'v' unlike other non-Iberian Romance cognates (compare however the inherited Old Spanish 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/, [paˈβoɾ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧vor

pavor m (plural pavores)

1. fright, fear

   Synonyms: miedo, temor, horror

• pavoroso
• empavorecer

• pávido
• impávido

• “pavor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.