fetor

English

Alternative forms

• fœtor

Etymology

From Latin fētor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.tə/, /ˈfiː.tɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.təɹ/, /ˈfi.tɔɹ/
• Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ), -iːtɔː(ɹ)

Noun

fetor (countable and uncountable, plural fetors)

1. An unpleasant smell.
   • 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 39:

     Heʼd thrown rancid meat in a fire to fill the woods with the ripe fetor of death.

Synonyms

• stench
• stink

Related terms

• fetor oris

Translations

An unpleasant smell

• Bulgarian: зловоние (bg) n (zlovonie)
• Portuguese: fedor (pt) m

Anagrams

• Foret, Forte, forte, frote, ofter

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fētor.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

fetor f (plural fetors)

1. stench

   Synonym: pudor

Derived terms

• fetorós

Related terms

• fètid

Further reading

• “fetor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Indonesian

Etymology

From Portuguese feitor, from Latin factor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfe.t̪ɔr]
• Hyphenation: fétor

Noun

fétor (plural fetor-fetor)

1. (East Nusa Tenggara) village head
2. (East Nusa Tenggara) chieftain
3. (East Nusa Tenggara, Atoni) noble

   Synonym: bangsawan

4. factor, overseer

Further reading

• “fetor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Alternative forms

• foetor

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin fēteō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin fētor

From fēteō (“to stink, smell bad”) + -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfeː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.tor]

Noun

fētor m (genitive fētōris); third declension

1. stench, stink, bad smell, fetidness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fētor	fētōrēs
genitive	fētōris	fētōrum
dative	fētōrī	fētōribus
accusative	fētōrem	fētōrēs
ablative	fētōre	fētōribus
vocative	fētor	fētōrēs

Related terms

• fētidus

Descendants

• Asturian: fedor
• Catalan: fetor
• English: fetor, foetor
• Esperanto: fetoro
• Italian: fetore
• Old French: feteur
• Galician: fedor
• Polish: fetor
• Portuguese: fedor
• Sicilian: fetu
• Spanish: hedor, fetor

Verb

fētor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of fētō

References

• “fetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fetor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Noun

fetor f

1. alternative form of feter

Polish

Alternative forms

• feter (Przemyśl)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin fēteō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin fētorlbor.

Polish fetor

Learned borrowing from Latin fētor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.tɔr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɔr
• Syllabification: fe‧tor

Noun

fetor m inan (diminutive fetorek)

1. (literary) fetor (unpleasant smell)

   Synonyms: odór, smród, swąd, sztynk

   Antonym: aromat

   Hypernyms: woń, zapach

Declension

Declension of fetor

	singular	plural
nominative	fetor	fetory
genitive	fetoru	fetorów
dative	fetorowi	fetorom
accusative	fetor	fetory
instrumental	fetorem	fetorami
locative	fetorze	fetorach
vocative	fetorze	fetory

Further reading

• “fetor”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “fetor”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feˈtoɾ/ [feˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: fe‧tor

Noun

fetor m (plural fetores)

1. obsolete form of hedor

Further reading

• “fetor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025