languor

English

Alternative forms

• languour

Etymology

From the Middle English langour, langor, borrowed from Old French langueur, from Latin languor (“faintness, languor”), from languere (“to feel faint, languish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæŋɡəɹ/
• Rhymes: -æŋɡə(ɹ)

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

languor (countable and uncountable, plural languors)

1. (uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude

   languor of convalescence

2. (countable) listless indolence; dreaminess

   a certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer -- James Purdy

3. (uncountable) dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnation

   from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity -- Elinor Wylie

4. (obsolete, countable) An enfeebling disease; suffering

Related terms

• languid
• languish
• languorous

Translations

a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling

• Bulgarian: отпуснатост (bg) (otpusnatost), апатия (bg) f (apatija)
• Dutch: loomheid (nl)
• French: langueur (fr)
• German: einschläfernde Stille
• Italian: languore (it)
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• Maori: maiarohea, tīrohea
• Romanian: langoare f, moleșeală (ro) f
• Russian: вя́лость (ru) f (vjálostʹ), исто́ма (ru) f (istóma), томле́ние (ru) n (tomlénije)
• Spanish: languidez (es) f, languor m

listless indolence; dreaminess

• Bulgarian: разнеженост (bg) f (razneženost)
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Further reading

• “languor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “languor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “languor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Latin

Etymology

From langueō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlan.ɡʷor/, [ˈɫ̪äŋɡʷɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlan.ɡwor/, [ˈläŋɡwor]

Noun

languor m (genitive languōris); third declension

1. faintness, feebleness, languor, apathy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	languor	languōrēs
Genitive	languōris	languōrum
Dative	languōrī	languōribus
Accusative	languōrem	languōrēs
Ablative	languōre	languōribus
Vocative	languor	languōrēs

Descendants

• Albanian: lëngjyrë
• Aromanian: lãngoari
• English: languor
• French: langueur

• Italian: languore
• Portuguese: langor
• Romanian: lingoare
• Spanish: languor

References

• “languor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “languor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• languor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy: desidiae et languori se dedere
    
  • to weary, bore the reader: languorem, molestiam legentium animis afferre
    

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin languor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [la̠ŋˈɡuo̞ɾ]

Noun

languor m (plural languores)

1. (rare) languor

Related terms

• lánguido