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Latin
Etymology
odor (“smell”) + -us (adjective-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
Adjective
odōrus (feminine odōra, neuter odōrum); first/second-declension adjective
- (chiefly poetic) odorous
- Synonyms: fragrans, olens
- Antonym: inodorus
- (literary) sweet-smelling, fragrant
- Synonyms: beneodorus, fragrans, olens
- (literary) foul-smelling, smelly, stinking
- Synonym: olens
- That tracks by the smell
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.132:
- Massȳlīque ruunt equitēs et odōra canum vīs.
- out rush Massylian horsemen and potent scent-tracking hounds.
(The “vis” may be understood as dogs who are eager, hardy, or “potent” in their scent-sniffing abilities, or perhaps the potent scents of the prey. An alternate phrasing: “hounds keen-nosed for the scents .” A literal translation, understanding “canum” as a genetive plural: “the strong scent-tracking of the dogs.”)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “odorus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- odorus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.