olfaction

English

Head anatomy with olfactory nerve.

Etymology

From Latin olfactus.

Noun

olfaction (plural olfactions)

1. The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.

Related terms

• olfactory

Translations

the sense of smell

• Basque: usaimen (eu)
• Bulgarian: обоняние (bg) n (obonjanie)
• Catalan: olfacte (ca) m
• Dutch: reukzin (nl)
• French: olfaction (fr) f, odorat (fr) m
• German: Geruchssinn (de) m

• Greek: όσφρησις (el) (ósfrisis)
• Italian: olfatto (it) m, odorato (it) m
• Polish: węch (pl) m
• Portuguese: olfato (pt) m, faro (pt) m
• Spanish: olfato (es) m
• Walloon: oda (wa)

Further reading

• olfaction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From Latin olfactus +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔl.fak.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

olfaction f (plural olfactions)

1. olfaction

   Synonym: odorat

Further reading

• “olfaction” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).