odor

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• odour

Etymology

Middle English odour, from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈəʊ.də/
• (US) IPA: /ˈoʊ.dɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊdə(r)

Noun

odor (plural odors)

1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X

     Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years. Is reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago. I was about to throw this camphor on one side, and then remembering that it was inflammable and burnt with a good bright flame, I put it into my pocket.

2. A strong, pervasive quality.
3. Esteem; repute.

Synonyms

• (any smell): perfume, scent
• (esteem): esteem, repute
• See also Wikisaurus:smell

Derived terms

• odorous
• odorously
• odorousness

Translations

any smell — see odour

strong, pervasive quality

Finnish: ominaispiirre (fi)

Norwegian: odør (no) m., stank (no) m., lukt (no)

esteem, repute

Finnish: maine (fi)

Anagrams

• door, ordo, rood

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Italian

Noun

odor m. inv.

1. apocopic form of odore

Anagrams

• doro, d'oro, dorò, ordo, rodo, rodò

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Latin

Alternative forms

• odōs

Etymology

Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-.

Noun

odor m. (plural: odores)

1. A smell, perfume, stench.
2. (figuratively) Inkling, suggestion.

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	odor	odorēs
genitive	odoris	odorum
dative	odorī	odoribus
accusative	odorem	odorēs
ablative	odore	odoribus
vocative	odor	odorēs

Descendants

Catalan: olor English: odor, odour French: odeur Italian: odore

Portuguese: odor Romanian: urdoare Spanish: olor

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian odore

Noun

odor m. (plural odori) or odor m. (plural oduri)

1. smell, stink