odium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin odium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.di.əm/

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• Homophone: Odiham

Noun

odium (countable and uncountable, plural odiums)

1. Hatred; dislike.
   • 1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser:

     And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 207:

     ‘I warned you, if you give evidence against your husband, you will be shunned. You will be held in odium. You will be alone.’

   His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 6484883, Act V, page 82:

     She threw the odium of the fact on me.

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ed-‎ (3 c, 1 e)

Anagrams

• duomi

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Latin

Etymology

From ōdī.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.di.um/, [ˈɔd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.di.um/, [ˈɔːd̪ium]

Noun

odium n (genitive odiī or odī); second declension

1. hatred, ill-will, aversion, dislike, disgust, detestation, odium, loathing, enmity or their manifestation
2. the condition of being hated, unpopularity
3. (by metonymy) an object of hatred or aversion
4. (in weaker sense) weariness, boredom, impatience or their manifestation

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	odium	odia
Genitive	odiī odī1	odiōrum
Dative	odiō	odiīs
Accusative	odium	odia
Ablative	odiō	odiīs
Vocative	odium	odia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Antonyms

• amor

Derived terms

• odiōsus

Related terms

• ōdī

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Italian: uggia
  • Old Catalan: oy
    • Catalan: oi (Mallorca)
  • Old Venetian: oio
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: odi
  • → English: odium
  • → Friulian: odi
  • → Galician: odio
  • → Italian: odio
  • → Middle French: odie
  • → Occitan: òdi
  • → Portuguese: ódio
  • → Sardinian: odia, odiu
  • → Spanish: odio

References

• “odium” on page 1239 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “odium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “odium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• odium 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)
• odium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to incur a person's hatred: in odium, in invidiam venire alicui
    
  • to incur a person's hatred: alicuius odium subire, suscipere, in se convertere, sibi conflare
    
  • to incur a person's hatred: in alicuius odium incurrere
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: in invidiam, odium (alicuius) vocare aliquem
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: invidiam, odium ex-, concitare alicui, in aliquem
    
  • to glut one's hatred: odium explere aliqua re (Liv. 4. 32)
    
  • to conceive an implacable hatred against a man: odium implacabile suscipere in aliquem
    
  • to cherish an inveterate animosity against some one: odium inveteratum habere in aliquem (Vat. 3. 6)
    
  • to kindle hatred in a person's heart; to fill some one with hatred (not implere, vid. sect. IX. 2, note gaudio...): odium alicuius inflammare
    
  • to stifle, drown one's hatred: odium restinguere, exstinguere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hated by some one: odio, invidiae esse alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hated by some one: in odio esse apud aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to be separated by a deadly hatred: capitali odio dissidere ab aliquo (De Am. 1. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be consumed with hatred: odio or invidia alicuius ardere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be fired with a passionate hatred: odio inflammatum, accensum esse
    
• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002), “odium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 70, page 324

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin odium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.djum/

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• Rhymes: -ɔdjum
• Syllabification: o‧dium

Noun

odium n

1. odium

Declension

Declension of odium

	singular
nominative	odium
genitive	odium
dative	odium
accusative	odium
instrumental	odium
locative	odium
vocative	odium

Further reading

• odium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• odium in Polish dictionaries at PWN