odor
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊ.də/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈoʊ.dɚ/
- Rhymes: -əʊdə(ɹ)
- Homophone: oater (some dialects)
Noun
odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors) (American spelling)
- Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
- Synonyms: scent, perfume; see also Thesaurus:smell
- 1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.
- (figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
- 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 287:
- In different parts of the coast different species of animals are accounted sacred, because they are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead. Hence monkeys near Fishtown, snakes at Whydah, and crocodiles near Dix Cove live in the odour of sanctity."
- (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem.
- (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xxiiij:[1], folio cxvii, recto:
- On the morowe after the ſaboth / erly in the mornynge / they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odourſ whych they had prepared / and other wemen wyth them.
Usage notes
The term odo(u)r often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are fragrance, scent, and aroma.
Derived terms
Translations
any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume
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strong, pervasive quality
See also
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *omte.
Pronunciation
Noun
- (dialectal) hollow, cavity
- Synonym: üreg
- (dialectal) the place for fodder in the barn
- (geology) geode (a nodule of stone having a cavity)
- (printing) matrix (the cavity or mold in which anything is formed)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | odor | odrok |
| accusative | odrot | odrokat |
| dative | odornak | odroknak |
| instrumental | odorral | odrokkal |
| causal-final | odorért | odrokért |
| translative | odorrá | odrokká |
| terminative | odorig | odrokig |
| essive-formal | odorként | odrokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | odorban | odrokban |
| superessive | odron | odrokon |
| adessive | odornál | odroknál |
| illative | odorba | odrokba |
| sublative | odorra | odrokra |
| allative | odorhoz | odrokhoz |
| elative | odorból | odrokból |
| delative | odorról | odrokról |
| ablative | odortól | odroktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
odoré | odroké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
odoréi | odrokéi |
| Possessive forms of odor | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | odrom | odraim |
| 2nd person sing. | odrod | odraid |
| 3rd person sing. | odra | odrai |
| 1st person plural | odrunk | odraink |
| 2nd person plural | odrotok | odraitok |
| 3rd person plural | odruk | odraik |
or
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | odor | odorok |
| accusative | odort | odorokat |
| dative | odornak | odoroknak |
| instrumental | odorral | odorokkal |
| causal-final | odorért | odorokért |
| translative | odorrá | odorokká |
| terminative | odorig | odorokig |
| essive-formal | odorként | odorokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | odorban | odorokban |
| superessive | odoron | odorokon |
| adessive | odornál | odoroknál |
| illative | odorba | odorokba |
| sublative | odorra | odorokra |
| allative | odorhoz | odorokhoz |
| elative | odorból | odorokból |
| delative | odorról | odorokról |
| ablative | odortól | odoroktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
odoré | odoroké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
odoréi | odorokéi |
| Possessive forms of odor | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | odorom | odoraim |
| 2nd person sing. | odorod | odoraid |
| 3rd person sing. | odora | odorai |
| 1st person plural | odorunk | odoraink |
| 2nd person plural | odorotok | odoraitok |
| 3rd person plural | odoruk | odoraik |
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ Entry #667 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
Further reading
- odor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
odor m (apocopated)
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Italic *odōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éd-os, from *h₃ed- (“to smell”).
Pronunciation
Noun
odor m (genitive odōris); third declension
- A smell, perfume, stench.
- (figuratively) Inkling, suggestion.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | odor | odōrēs |
| Genitive | odōris | odōrum |
| Dative | odōrī | odōribus |
| Accusative | odōrem | odōrēs |
| Ablative | odōre | odōribus |
| Vocative | odor | odōrēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “odor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “odor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- odor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- odor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- with incense and perfumes: ture et odoribus incensis
- the perfume exhaled by flowers: odores, qui efflantur e floribus
- there are whispers of the appointment of a dictator: non nullus odor est dictaturae (Att. 4. 18)
- with incense and perfumes: ture et odoribus incensis
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 425-6
Lombard
Etymology
Noun
odor
- a smell
Middle English
Noun
odor
- Alternative form of odour
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese odor (displacing collateral form olor), from Latin odōrem.
Pronunciation
Noun
odor m (plural odores)
Romanian
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French odeur, Latin odor.
Noun
odor f (plural odoruri)
Declension
Declension of odor
Related terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian odor.
Noun
odor n (plural odoare)
Declension
Declension of odor
Venetian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin odor, odōrem. Compare Italian odore.