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cyberterror

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek κυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)bor. English cybernetic English cyber- Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreurbor. Middle English terrour English terror English cyberterror From cyber- + terror.

  1. derived from *tre-✻
  2. derived from *trozeō✻
  3. derived from tr̥reō
  4. derived from terror — “fright, fear, terror”
  5. derived from terreur
  6. inherited from terrour
  7. formed as cyberterror — “cyber- + terror”

Definitions

  1. Cyberterrorism

    • He has dismissed cyberterror in reports for the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies.
    • The committee added nearly $1.7 billion for extra antiterrorism efforts by the Pentagon and CIA, including money to protect against cyberterror attacks on computers

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cyberterror. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA