humor

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

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

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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.
    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.

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  • (liquid regions of the eye):

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something amusing
archaic bodily fluids
mood
liquid regions of the eye
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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.

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to pacify by indulging

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humor m.

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

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[edit] Dutch

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humor

  1. humour (something funny)


This Dutch entry was created from the translations listed at humour. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see humor in the Dutch Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) July 2010

[edit] Hungarian

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  • IPA: /ˈhumor/
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  • Hyphenation: hu‧mor

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humor (plural humorok)

  1. humour, humor

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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

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hūmor (genitive hūmōris); m, third declension

  1. liquid, fluid, humour

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

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humor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of humō

[edit] Polish

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  • IPA: [ˈxumɔr]

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humor m.

  1. humour
  2. mood (mental state)

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    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

[edit] Portuguese

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humor m. (plural humors)

  1. mood (mental state)


This Portuguese entry was created from the translations listed at mood. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see humor in the Portuguese Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2008

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From English humor.

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  • IPA: /xǔmor/
  • Hyphenation: hu‧mor

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hùmor m. (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)

  1. (uncountable) humor

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

[edit] Spanish

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humor m. (plural humores)

  1. mood
  2. humor

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[edit] Swedish

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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.

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humor c.

  1. humour (a sense of making jokes)

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Declension of humor
uncountable uncountable
Common indefinite definite
nominative humor humorn
genitive humors humorns

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