dolor

See also: dolôr

English

Alternative forms

• dolour (British)

Etymology

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Borrowed from Anglo-Norman dolour, mainland Old French dolor (modern douleur), from Latin dolor (“pain, grief”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊlə(ɹ)/, /ˈdɒlə(ɹ)/

Noun

dolor (countable and uncountable, plural dolors)

1. (literary) Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish.
2. A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.

Antonyms

• (unit of pain): hedon

Translations

sorrow

• Catalan: dolor (ca)
• Danish: smerte (da)
• Dutch: smart (nl) f
• French: douleur (fr) f
• Galician: dor (gl) f
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• German: Schmerz (de) m
• Italian: dolore (it)
• Latin: dolor (la)
• Russian: тоска́ (ru) f (toská), го́ре (ru) n (góre), грусть (ru) f (grustʹ), печа́ль (ru) f (pečálʹ), скорбь (ru) f (skorbʹ)
• Spanish: dolor (es)

See also

• (unit of pain): util

Anagrams

• drool, loord

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin dolor, dolōrem.

Noun

dolor m (plural dolores)

1. pain

Related terms

• doler

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin dolor, dolōr (“pain, sorrow”), from Proto-Italic *dolōs, from Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁ōs, derived from the root *delh₁- (“to split, divide”).

Noun

dolor m or f (plural dolors)

1. pain of a continuing nature, especially that of rheumatism
2. sorrow or grief of a continuing nature

Derived terms

• dolor reumàtic
• Dolors

Related terms

• doler, doldre (verb)
• dolorós (adjective)

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish dolor (“pain”).

Noun

dolor

1. pain; ache

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Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish dolor, from Latin dolor, dolōrem.

Noun

1. pain

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dolōs, from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to hew, to split”, verbal root).

Synchronically, from doleō +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.lor/, [ˈd̪ɔɫ̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.lor/, [ˈd̪ɔːlor]

Noun

dolor m (genitive dolōris); third declension

1. pain, ache, hurt
2. anguish, grief, sorrow
3. indignation, resentment, anger

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dolor	dolōrēs
Genitive	dolōris	dolōrum
Dative	dolōrī	dolōribus
Accusative	dolōrem	dolōrēs
Ablative	dolōre	dolōribus
Vocative	dolor	dolōrēs

Related terms

• dolenter
• doleō
• dolēns
• prō dolor

 

Descendants

• Asturian: dolor
• Catalan: dol, dolor
• Calabrese: doluri
• English: dol, dolor, dolour
• Esperanto: doloro
• French: douleur
• Friulian: dolôr

• Galician: dor
• Ido: doloro
• Istriot: dulur
• Italian: dolore
• Neapolitan: dulore
• Occitan: dolor
• Old Galician-Portuguese: door

• Portuguese: dor
• Romanian: duroare
• Romansch: dolur, dalur, dolour, dulur
• Sardinian: dolore, dabori, daori, dulori
• Sicilian: duluri, ruluri, diluri
• Spanish: dolor
• Venetian: dolor, dołor
• Welsh: dolur

References

• “dolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dolor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • time will assuage his grief: dies dolorem mitigabit
    
  • to soothe grief: consolari dolorem alicuius
    
  • to feel pain: dolore affici
    
  • to be vexed about a thing: dolorem capere (percipere) ex aliqua re
    
  • to feel acute pain: doloribus premi, angi, ardere, cruciari, distineri et divelli
    
  • to cause a person pain: dolorem alicui facere, afferre, commovere
    
  • to cause any one very acute pain: acerbum dolorem alicui inurere
    
  • the pain is very severe: acer morsus doloris est (Tusc. 2. 22. 53)
    
  • to find relief in tears: dolorem in lacrimas effundere
    
  • to give way to grief: dolori indulgere
    
  • grief has struck deep into his soul: dolor infixus animo haeret (Phil. 2. 26)
    
  • to be wasted with grief; to die of grief: dolore confici, tabescere
    
  • the pain grows less: dolores remittunt, relaxant
    
  • to struggle against grief: dolori resistere
    
  • to render insensible to pain: callum obducere dolori (Tusc. 2. 15. 36)
    
  • I have become callous to all pain: animus meus ad dolorem obduruit (Fam. 2. 16. 1)
    
  • to banish grief: dolorem abicere, deponere, depellere
    
  • to free a person from his pain: dolorem alicui eripere (Att. 9. 6. 4)
    
  • to my sorrow: cum magno meo dolore
    
• dolor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• doulour (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan dolor, from Latin dolor, dolōrem (“pain, sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [duˈlu]

Noun

dolor m or f (plural dolors)

1. pain

Related terms

• dòlre / dòler

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Old French

Alternative forms

• dolur, dulor, dulur

Etymology

From Latin dolor, dolōrem.

Noun

dolor oblique singular, m (oblique plural dolors, nominative singular dolors, nominative plural dolor)

1. pain; suffering

Related terms

• dolent
• dolerous
• doloir

 

Descendants

• → English: dolour
• French: douleur f

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin dolor, dolōrem.

Noun

dolor m or f

1. pain

Related terms

• doloros (adjective)

Descendants

• Catalan: dolor
• Occitan: dolor

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish dolor, from Latin dolōrem, accusative of dolor (“pain; grief”), from Proto-Italic *dolōs, from Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁ōs, derived from the root *delh₁- (“to split, divide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈloɾ/ [d̪oˈloɾ]

Noun

dolor m (plural dolores)

1. pain

Derived terms

• dolor de cabeza
• dolor de estómago
• dolores de tiempo

 

Related terms

• adolecer
• adolorido
• doler
• dolido
• doliente
• dolorido
• doloroso