to threaten (to make a threat against someone; to use threats) · to endanger, menace · to portend, threaten
çekim: geçmiş ameacei · ortaç ameaçado · şimdiki ameaça
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese amẽaçar, a variant of mẽaçar, either from mẽaça (“threat”) + -ar, or from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *admināciāre (“to threaten”) < *mināciāre (“threaten”), from minācia (“threat”), from Latin mināciae. Cognate with English menace. Compare Catalan and Occitan amenaçar, French menacer, Galician ameazar, Italian minacciare, Romanian amenința, Sicilian amminazzari,…
to frighten, scare, terrify, spook (cause to feel fear) · to be frightened, be scared, be terrified, be spooked · have a job (have great difficulty in order to)
çekim: geçmiş τρόμαξα · ortaç έχοντας τρομάξει · şimdiki τρομάζει · ulaç τρομάζοντας
eş: φοβίζω, εκφοβίζω, τρομοκρατώ, κλάνω μέντες, χυδαίο, κόβω τα ήπατα
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek τρομάζω (tromázō), from Ancient Greek τρομάσσω (tromássō), from τρομέω (troméō).
Ο αδελφός μου με τρόμαξε· εμφανίστηκε ξαφνικά κάτω από το κρεββάτι μου.
to scare, to frighten (to cause fear; to be a cause of fear)
çekim: geçmiş baidīju · ortaç baidīts · şimdiki baida
köken: From Proto-Baltic *baid-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoyd-, the o grade of *bʰey-, *bʰī- “to hit, to pierce” with an extra d. (Synonym biedēt comes from the e grade form *bʰeyd-, i.e. etymologically biedēt and baidīt are parallel forms of the same stem.) Cognates include Lithuanian baidýti, baidi̇̀nti “to scare, to frighten” (for cognates from other forms of this stem, see biedēt).
to frighten, to scare; to terrify · to get frightened · to chase off; to shoo; to drive away
çekim: geçmiş espantei · ortaç espantado · şimdiki espanta
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese espantar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *expaventāre, derived from the present participle of Classical Latin expaveō. Compare Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan espantar, Italian spaventare, French épouvanter.
Etimoloji
Inherited from Middle French effreer, from Old French esfreer, esfreder (whence also English affray), from a Vulgar Latin *exfridāre, itself of Germanic origin (with the prefix ex- added), from a Frankish *friþu (“security, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace”), from *frijōną (“to free; to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *prāy-, *prēy- (“to like, love”).