rancid

English

Etymology

From Latin rancidus (“stinking, rank, rancid, offensive”), from *ranceō (“to stink”) (sense in Middle Latin), from whence also English rancor, in Latin used only in present participle rancēns (“stinking”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹænsɪd/

Adjective

rancid (comparative more rancid, superlative most rancid)

1. Rank in taste or smell.

   The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.

2. Offensive.

   His remarks were rancid; everyone got up and left.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "rancid" often gets applied: food, butter, meat, milk, fat, oil, smell, odor, taste.

Related terms

• rancidification
• rancidly
• rancidness
• rancor

Translations

being rank in taste or smell

• Catalan: ranci
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馊 (zh) (sōu)

• Czech: žluklý (cs), ztuchlý (cs)
• Danish: harsk
• Finnish: eltaantunut, härskiintynyt (fi), härski (fi)
• French: rance (fr) m
• Galician: rancio
• German: ranzig (de)
• Greek: χαλασμένος (el) (chalasménos), ταγκός (el) (tagkós), ξινισμένος (el) (xinisménos)
• Icelandic: þrár (is), þræsinn
• Italian: rancido (it)
• Latin: rancidus
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• Malay: basi
• Maori: kūtaitai
• Norman: êventé
• Norwegian: harsk
• Polish: zjełczały m
• Portuguese: râncido, ranço (pt), rançoso (pt)
• Romanian: rânced (ro)
• Russian: проту́хший (ru) (protúxšij), прого́рклый (ru) (progórklyj)
• Spanish: rancio (es)
• Swedish: härsken (sv)
• Tagalog: maanta
• Walloon: rance (wa) m or f, foirt (wa) m
• Westrobothnian:

rancid — see offensive

Further reading

• “rancid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “rancid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “rancid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Cardin, carnid, dracin