odor

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See also: odôr and odør

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.

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Noun[edit]

odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors) (American spelling)

  1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
    • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
      Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.
  2. (figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
  3. (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem; repute.
  4. (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XXIV:
      On the morow after the saboth, erly in the mornynge, they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odoures whych they had prepared, and other wemen wyth them.

Usage notes[edit]

In the United States, the term odor often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are "fragrance", "scent", and "aroma".

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Translations[edit]

any smell — see odour

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Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /oˈdor/, [oˈd̪or̺]
  • Hyphenation: o‧dór

Noun[edit]

odor m (invariable)

  1. Apocopic form of odore

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Latin[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-.

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Noun[edit]

odor m (genitive odōris); third declension

  1. A smell, perfume, stench.
  2. (figuratively) Inkling, suggestion.

Inflection[edit]

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative odor odōrēs
Genitive odōris odōrum
Dative odōrī odōribus
Accusative odōrem odōrēs
Ablative odōre odōribus
Vocative odor odōrēs

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References[edit]

  • odor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • odor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • odor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • odor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • with incense and perfumes: ture et odoribus incensis
    • the perfume exhaled by flowers: odores, qui efflantur e floribus
    • there are whispers of the appointment of a dictator: non nullus odor est dictaturae (Att. 4. 18)

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

odor

  1. Alternative form of odour

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Portuguese odor (displacing collateral form olor), from Latin odor, odōris, from Old Latin odōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to smell, stink”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔ.ˈðoɾ/, /o.ˈðoɾ/, /u.ˈðoɾ/
  • Hyphenation: o‧dor

Noun[edit]

odor m (plural odores)

  1. odour; smell

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Venetian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin odor, odōrem. Compare Italian odore.

Noun[edit]

odor m (plural odori) or odor m (plural oduri)

  1. smell, stink
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