Wouldn't you know it? A perfect word for the Trolls...
Minatory -- having a menacing quality
Just kidding of course, we Trolls are a fun loving bunch, not a menacing bone in our bodies. Well not anymore anyway. And not even back in the early days. We were always the easygoing laid back gamers. Not that we didn't like to knock back a few (now we chase it with pepto-bismol) but in general we weren't very menacing.
Knowing that minatory means "threatening," can you take a guess at a related word? If you're familiar with mythology, perhaps you guessed Minotaur, the name of the bull-headed, people-eating monster of Crete. Minotaur is a good guess, but as terrifying as the monster sounds, its name isn't related to minatory. The relative we're searching for is actually menace. Minatory and menace both come from derivatives of the Latin verb minari, which means "to threaten." Minatory was borrowed directly from Late Latin minatorius. Menace came to English via Anglo-French manace, menace, which came from Latin minac-, minax, meaning "threatening."
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