English
terrorwave
From terror + -wave.
Formed from terror + -wave
Proto-Indo-European *tres- ‘to tremble (with fear)’
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Latin terror ‘fright, fear, terror’
Old French terreur ‘terror, fear, dread’
Middle French terreur
Middle English terrour ‘a terror’
English terror
Today it means
noun Vaporwave music and art with terrorist and militant themes.
Sources
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