candor

English

WOTD – 12 March 2008

Alternative forms

• candour (British and Canadian)

Etymology

From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from candeō (“I shine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.dɚ/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

candor (usually uncountable, plural candors) (American spelling)

1. (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity. [c. 1500–?]
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "To his Booke":

     Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd,

     Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child ...

2. The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]

   Synonyms: frankness, honesty, sincerity, parrhesia

   Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie

3. Impartiality.

   Synonyms: equity, fairness

Related terms

• candid

Translations

sincere and open in speech, honesty in expression

• Bulgarian: искреност (bg) f (iskrenost), честност (bg) f (čestnost), откровеност (bg) f (otkrovenost)
• Catalan: candor m or f
• Czech: upřímnost f
• Dutch: openheid (nl), openhartigheid (nl), eerlijkheid (nl), oprechtheid (nl), onbevangenheid
• Finnish: vilpittömyys (fi), suoruus (fi)
• French: candeur (fr) f
• German: Aufrichtigkeit (de) f, Freimut (de) m, Redlichkeit (de) f, Ehrlichkeit (de) f, Offenheit (de) f, Freimütigkeit (de) f, Offenherzigkeit f
• Greek: ειλικρίνεια (el) f (eilikríneia), ευθύτητα (el) f (efthýtita)
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• Hungarian: nyíltság (hu), őszinteség (hu)
• Latin: candor m
• Persian: خلوص (fa) (xolus)
• Polish: szczerość (pl) f, otwartość (pl) f, uczciwość (pl) f
• Portuguese: franqueza (pt) f
• Russian: прямота́ (ru) f (prjamotá), че́стность (ru) f (čéstnostʹ)
• Spanish: candor (es) m
• Turkish: içtenlik (tr)

impartiality

• Bulgarian: безпристрастност f (bezpristrastnost)
• Czech: nestrannost f, bezpředsudkovost f
• Dutch: openheid (nl),onpartijdigheid (nl),
• German: Offenheit (de) f, Unparteilichkeit f, Neutralität (de) f
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• Greek: αμεροληψία (el) f (amerolipsía)
• Hungarian: elfogulatlanság (hu)
• Polish: bezstronność (pl) f
• Russian: беспристрастность (ru) f (bespristrastnostʹ)

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• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} terus terang (id), ^{(please verify)} jujur (id), ^{(please verify)} tulus (id), ^{(please verify)} tulus hati
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Anagrams

• Cardon, Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, dacron

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin candor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kənˈdo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kanˈdoɾ]

Noun

candor m or f (plural candors)

1. candor

Related terms

• càndid

Further reading

• “candor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “candor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “candor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “candor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Latin

Etymology

From candeō (“to shine, glitter; glow”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.dor/, [ˈkän̪d̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.dor/, [ˈkän̪d̪or]

Noun

candor m (genitive candōris); third declension

1. a dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness
2. fairness, beauty
3. glow, heat
4. (of speech) splendor, brilliance
5. (of mind or character) frankness, openness, candor, purity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	candor	candōrēs
Genitive	candōris	candōrum
Dative	candōrī	candōribus
Accusative	candōrem	candōrēs
Ablative	candōre	candōribus
Vocative	candor	candōrēs

Related terms

• candefaciō
• candēla
• candēlābrārius
• candēlābrum

• candēns
• candentia
• candeō
• candescō

• candicō
• candidus
• candificō

Descendants

• Catalan: candor
• English: candor, candour
• French: candeur
• Italian: candore

• Portuguese: candor
• Romanian: candoare
• Spanish: candor

References

• “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• candor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• candor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin candor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanˈdoɾ/ [kãn̪ˈd̪oɾ]

Noun

candor m (plural candores)

1. candor

Related terms

• cándido

Further reading

• “candor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014