ardor

English

Alternative forms

• ardour (chiefly British and Canadian)

Etymology

From Middle English ardour, ardowr, ardure, from Anglo-Norman ardour, from Old French ardur, from Latin ardor, from ardere (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɹdɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

ardor (countable and uncountable, plural ardors) (American spelling)

1. Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. , volume III, London: for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC, page 120:

     I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished.

2. Spirit; enthusiasm; passion.
3. Intense heat.

Synonyms

• (warmth of feeling): intensity
• (spirit): elan, fire in the belly, passion, zeal

Antonyms

• apathy

Related terms

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

ardor m (plural ardors)

1. heat
2. ardor, passion

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin ardor.

Noun

ardor m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ארדור)

1. ardor, passion

Latin

Etymology

From ārdeō +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.dor/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.dor/,

Noun

ardor m (genitive ardōris); third declension

1. flame, fire, heat

   Synonym: calor

2. brightness, brilliancy (of the eyes)
3. ardour, eagerness, ardent desire

   Synonyms: cupīdō, vehementia, dēsīderium, appetītus, studium, impetus, amor, appetītiō, libīdō, alacritās

4. the object of ardent affection, love, flame

   Synonym: amor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• “ardor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ardor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ardor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be dried up by the sun's heat: ardore solis torreri
    
  • enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
    
  • to damp, chill enthusiasm: ardorem animi restinguere
    
  • his enthusiasm has abated, cooled down: ardor animi resēdit, consedit
    

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin ārdōrem.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: ar‧dor

Noun

ardor m (plural ardores)

1. burning sensation

   Synonym: queimação

2. ardor (warmth of feeling)
3. spirit; enthusiasm

   Synonym: entusiasmo

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ardor.

Related terms

• ardência
• ardentemente
• arder
• ardido

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin ardōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈdoɾ/

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ar‧dor

Noun

ardor m (plural ardores)

1. heat
2. ardour, fervor, passion
3. burning (feeling)

   una sensación de ardor ― a burning sensation

4. eagerness

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “ardor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014