odium

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin odium.

Noun

odium (countable and uncountable, plural odiums)

1. Hatred; dislike.

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

2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
   • Dryden

     She threw the odium of the fact on me.

Anagrams

• duomi

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Latin

Etymology

From ōdī.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

odium n (genitive odiī or odī); second declension

1. hatred, ill-will, aversion, dislike or their manifestation
2. the condition of being hated, odium, 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).

Derived terms

• odiōsus

Related terms

• ōdī

Descendants

• Catalan: odi
• English: odium
• Friulian: odi
• Italian: odio, uggia

• 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