Participle in the masculine plural intimidate whose origin would be Portuguese, according to Corominas, (Joan Corominas is one of our best philologists and etimologos, catalan, born in Barcelona in 1905, died in 1997 and is the author of the critical dictionary etymological Spanish and hispano ). It would come from the Portuguese medorento ( fearful ) that in turn would come from the vulgar latin metorentus ( fearful ) from the classical latin metus metus ( 41 fear; The prefix a-ad-: to, indicates approach, approach. Therefore scare means scare, instill fear, cow, fearfulness. Can also be reflexive: scare you
