odorus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]odor (“smell”) + -us (adjective-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /oˈdoː.rus/, [ɔˈd̪oːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈdo.rus/, [oˈd̪ɔːrus]
Adjective
[edit]odōrus (feminine odōra, neuter odōrum); first/second-declension adjective
- (chiefly poetic) odorous
- (literary) sweet-smelling, fragrant
- (literary) foul-smelling, smelly, stinking
- That tracks by the smell
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.132:
- [...] Massȳlīque ruunt equitēs et odōra canum vīs.
- [As the hunting party gets underway,] out rush Massylian horsemen and potent scent-tracking hounds.
(The “vis” may be understood as dogs who are eager, hardy, or “potent” in their scent-sniffing abilities, or perhaps the potent scents of the prey. An alternate phrasing: “hounds keen-nosed for the scents [of prey].” A literal translation, understanding “canum” as a genetive plural: “the strong scent-tracking of the dogs.”)
- [As the hunting party gets underway,] out rush Massylian horsemen and potent scent-tracking hounds.
- [...] Massȳlīque ruunt equitēs et odōra canum vīs.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | odōrus | odōra | odōrum | odōrī | odōrae | odōra | |
Genitive | odōrī | odōrae | odōrī | odōrōrum | odōrārum | odōrōrum | |
Dative | odōrō | odōrō | odōrīs | ||||
Accusative | odōrum | odōram | odōrum | odōrōs | odōrās | odōra | |
Ablative | odōrō | odōrā | odōrō | odōrīs | |||
Vocative | odōre | odōra | odōrum | odōrī | odōrae | odōra |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “odorus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- odorus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ed- (smell)
- Latin terms suffixed with -us
- Latin 3-syllable words
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- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Latin poetic terms
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