humor

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English [edit]

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Alternative forms [edit]

  • (British, chiefly Canadian) humour

Etymology [edit]

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; 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.

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  • (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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Czech [edit]

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humor m

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

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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.]

Hungarian [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈhumor/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: hu‧mor

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humor (plural humorok)

  1. humour, humor

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Latin [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

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

Old French [edit]

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humor m and f

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

Polish [edit]

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  • IPA: [ˈxumɔr]

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humor m

  1. humour
  2. mood (mental state)

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Portuguese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin hūmor (humour, fluid).

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

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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)

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Serbo-Croatian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From English humor.

Pronunciation [edit]

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

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hùmor m (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)

  1. (uncountable) humor

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humor m (plural humores)

  1. mood
  2. humor

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Swedish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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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