humor

See also Humor, humør, and humör

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• (British, chiefly Canadian) humour

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French humor, from Latin humor, correctly umor (“moisture”), from humere, correctly umere (“to be moist”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /ˈhjuːməɹ/, /ˈjuːməɹ/
• (US) X-SAMPA: /hjumO@r/

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• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

Noun

humor (plural humors)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.]

   She has a great sense of humor, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.

   The sensitive subject was treated with humor, but in such way that no one was offended.

2. (archaic) One of four fluids (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. [from the 15th c.]
   • M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40

     For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.

3. (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.

   He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.

4. (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
5. A fluid or semi-fluid of the body.

Synonyms

• (quality of being amusing): amusingness, comedy, comicality, wit
• (archaic bodily fluids): bodily fluid

• (liquid regions of the eye):

Related terms

• humid
• humidity
• humorism
• humorist
• humorous
• black humor
• sense of humor
• toilet humour
• gallows humour
• crystalline humour

Translations

something amusing — see humour

archaic bodily fluids — see humour

mood — see humour

liquid regions of the eye — see vitreous humour

bodily fluid — see bodily fluid

Verb

humor (third-person singular simple present humors, present participle humoring, simple past and past participle humored)

1. (transitive): To pacify by indulging.

   I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

Translations

to pacify by indulging — see humour

External links

• Wikipedia article on humor
• Wikipedia article on humors
• humor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• humor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• humor at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• mohur

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Czech

Pronunciation

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Noun

humor m

1. humor (US), humour (UK) (source of amusement)

Derived terms

• humorný m
• humorista m
• smysl pro humor m

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /xxxx/

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Noun

humor m (plural humoren or humores)

1. (uncountable) humour
2. (countable, archaic) One of four fluids (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. [from the 15th c.]

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhumor/

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mor

Noun

humor (plural humorok)

1. humour, humor

Declension

declension of humor singular plural nominative humor humorok accusative humort humorokat dative humornak humoroknak instrumental humorral humorokkal causal-final humorért humorokért translative humorrá humorokká terminative humorig humorokig essive-formal humorként humorokként essive-modal - - inessive humorban humorokban superessive humoron humorokon adessive humornál humoroknál illative humorba humorokba sublative humorra humorokra allative humorhoz humorokhoz elative humorból humorokból delative humorról humorokról ablative humortól humoroktól

possessives of humor possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. humorom humoraim 2nd person sing. humorod humoraid 3rd person sing. humora humorai 1st person plural humorunk humoraink 2nd person plural humorotok humoraitok 3rd person plural humoruk humoraik

Derived terms

• akasztófahumor
• humorérzék

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Latin

Alternative forms

• ūmor

Etymology

Alternative spelling of umor found in the later Roman Empire, when the letter "h" already became silent.

Noun

hūmor (genitive hūmōris); m, third declension

1. liquid, fluid, humour

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	hūmor	hūmōrēs
genitive	hūmōris	hūmōrum
dative	hūmōrī	hūmōribus
accusative	hūmōrem	hūmōrēs
ablative	hūmōre	hūmōribus
vocative	hūmor	hūmōrēs

Descendants

• Russian: юмор

Verb

humor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of humō

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Old French

Alternative forms

• humour (less common)

Noun

humor m and f

1. humor (One of four fluids that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈxumɔr]

Noun

humor m

1. humour
2. mood (mental state)

Declension

    declension of humor

	singular	plural
nominative	humor	humory
genitive	humoru	humorów
dative	humorowi	humorom
accusative	humor	humory
instrumental	humorem	humorami
locative	humorze	humorach
vocative	humorze	humory

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin hūmor (“humour, fluid”).

Pronunciation

• (Paulista) IPA: /u.ˈmoɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA: /u.ˈmoɻ/

Noun

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood (mental state)
2. humour; bodily fluid
3. (historical) humour (one of the four basic bodily fluids in humourism)
4. humour (quality of being comical)

Synonyms

• (mood): espírito, disposição, temperamento
• (quality of being comical): comicidade, graça, comédia

Hyponyms

• (basic bodily fluids): fleuma, bile amarela, bile negra, sangue

Derived terms

• (mood):
• bom humor
• mau humor
• (bodily fluid):
• humor vítreo
• (quality of being comical):
• humor negro

Related terms

humorado humoral humorista humorismo

humorista humorístico humoroso

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English humor.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /xǔmor/
• Hyphenation: hu‧mor

Noun

hùmor m (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)

1. (uncountable) humor

Declension

    declension of humor

	singular
nominative	humor
genitive	humora
dative	humoru
accusative	humor
vocative	humore
locative	humoru
instrumental	humorom

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Spanish

Noun

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood
2. humor

Related terms

• humo
• humorismo
• humorístico
• humorísta

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Swedish

Etymology

Originally from Latin humor (“fluid”), having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör (“mood, temper”). The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.

Pronunciation

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Noun

humor c

1. humour (a sense of making jokes)

Declension

Declension of humor

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	humor	humorn
genitive	humors	humorns

Related terms

• galghumor
• humoresk
• humorfri
• humorist
• humoristisk

References

• humor, humör in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• humor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.