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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rancidus (“stinking, rank, rancid, offensive”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
rancid (comparative more rancid, superlative most rancid)
- Rank in taste or smell.
The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.
- Offensive.
Her 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.
Translations
being rank in taste or smell
- Bikol Central: mahalan
- Bulgarian: гранясал (bg) (granjasal)
- Catalan: ranci
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 馊 (zh) (sōu)
- Czech: žluklý (cs), ztuchlý (cs), smradlavý (cs)
- Danish: harsk
- Esperanto: ranca
- Finnish: eltaantunut, härskiintynyt (fi), härski (fi)
- French: rance (fr)
- Galician: rancio
- German: ranzig (de), garstig (de) (poetic)
- Greek: χαλασμένος (el) (chalasménos), ταγκός (el) (tagkós), ξινισμένος (el) (xinisménos)
- Hungarian: avas (hu)
- Icelandic: þrár (is), þræsinn
- Italian: rancido (it)
- Latin: rancidus
- Malay: basi (ms)
- Maori: kūtaitai
- Norman: êventé
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: harsk
- Nynorsk: harsk
- Polish: zjełczały (pl)
- Portuguese: râncido, ranço (pt), rançoso (pt)
- Romanian: rânced (ro)
- Russian: проту́хший (ru) (protúxšij), прого́рклый (ru) (progórklyj)
- Spanish: rancio (es)
- Swedish: härsken (sv)
- Tagalog: maanta
- Ukrainian: згі́рклий m (zhírklyj), проту́хлий m (protúxlyj)
- Walloon: rance (wa), foirt (wa)
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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.
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