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humor (usually uncountable, plural humors)
humor (third-person singular simple present humors, present participle humoring, simple past and past participle humored)
Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.
humor m (plural humores)
humor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural humors)
humor m inan
From Latin (h)ūmor (“fluid”). Doublet of humør (“spirits, mood”). The modern use of this word for mental processes goes back to Ancient and Medieval theories about the four fluids of the body.
humor c (singular definite humoren, not used in plural form)
common gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | humor | humoren |
genitive | humors | humorens |
Borrowed from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin hūmor. Doublet of humeur (“mood, mental state”).
The meaning of humor as in "a sense of amusement" entered Dutch from the US spelling of humour around ~1839.
humor m (plural humoren or humores)
humor (plural humorok)
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | humor | humorok |
accusative | humort | humorokat |
dative | humornak | humoroknak |
instrumental | humorral | humorokkal |
causal-final | humorért | humorokért |
translative | humorrá | humorokká |
terminative | humorig | humorokig |
essive-formal | humorként | humorokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | humorban | humorokban |
superessive | humoron | humorokon |
adessive | humornál | humoroknál |
illative | humorba | humorokba |
sublative | humorra | humorokra |
allative | humorhoz | humorokhoz |
elative | humorból | humorokból |
delative | humorról | humorokról |
ablative | humortól | humoroktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
humoré | humoroké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
humoréi | humorokéi |
Possessive forms of humor | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | humorom | humoraim |
2nd person sing. | humorod | humoraid |
3rd person sing. | humora | humorai |
1st person plural | humorunk | humoraink |
2nd person plural | humorotok | humoraitok |
3rd person plural | humoruk | humoraik |
Alternative spelling of ūmor found in the later Roman Empire, when the letter h had already become silent. See also the related hūmidus.
hūmor m (genitive hūmōris); third declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | hūmor | hūmōrēs |
Genitive | hūmōris | hūmōrum |
Dative | hūmōrī | hūmōribus |
Accusative | hūmōrem | hūmōrēs |
Ablative | hūmōre | hūmōribus |
Vocative | hūmor | hūmōrēs |
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
humor
humor
From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.
humor m (definite singular humoren)
From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.
humor m (definite singular humoren)
Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.
humor m or f
Borrowed from German Humor, ultimately from Latin hūmor. See humor for more.
humor m inan
From Old Galician-Portuguese umor, humor, borrowed from Latin hūmōrem (“humour, fluid”).
humor m (plural humores)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:humor.
humor n (plural humoare)
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) humor | humorul | (niște) humoare | humoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) humor | humorului | (unor) humoare | humoarelor |
vocative | humorule | humoarelor |
Borrowed from English humor, from Latin hūmor.
hùmor m (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)
Borrowed from Latin hūmōrem. Cognate with English humor.
humor m (plural humores)
Originally from Latin hūmor (“fluid”), having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör (“mood, temper”). The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.
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humor c
Declension of humor | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | humor | humorn | — | — |
Genitive | humors | humorns | — | — |