rancor

• rancour (Commonwealth)

First attested in the 13th century as Middle English rancour, from Old French rancor, from Latin rancor (“rancidity, grudge, rancor”), from ranceō (“I am rotten or putrid”), from which also English rancid.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæŋ.kɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
• Homophone: ranker

rancor (countable and uncountable, plural rancors)

1. (American spelling) A feeling of long-lasting ire for another, sometimes to the point of hatred, over a perceived wrongdoing; bitterness.

   I could almost see the rancor in his eyes when he challenged me to a fight.

2. (rare) Rancidity, rankness.

• rancorous
• rancorously

• rancid

• “rancor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Cranor, Carron, Corran

rancor m (plural rancores)

1. rancor (the deepest malignity or spite)

Attested since the 15th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese (compare Old Galicia-Portuguese rancura, 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rancor.

• IPA^(key): /raŋˈkoɾ/

rancor m (plural rancores)

1. rancor; grudge
   • 1446, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 635:

     estauan en moytas cartas de scomoion et testemoyos et eran en grande descordia et anduan en odios et rancores

     they were in many excommunicaton charters and litigations and they were in large discord and hate and rancor

   • 1612, Pedro Vázquez de Neira, "Soneto", in Gómez Tónel, Exequias:

     aquel rancor que te carcome e laña

     that rancor that eats away and cracks through you

   Synonym: xenreira

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rancura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rancor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rancor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rancor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rancor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

ranceō (“I am rotten, putrid”) +‎ -or (“-ness”, abstract noun suffix)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈran.kor/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈran.kor/,

rancor m (genitive rancōris); third declension (Late Latin)

1. rancidity, stench, rankness
2. grudge, rancor

Third-declension noun.

• Portuguese: rancor
• Spanish: rencor
• Catalan: rancor
• Galician: rancor
• Occitan: rancur
• Old French: rancor, rancure
  • Dutch: rankeur
  • English: rancor, rancour
  • French: rancœur, rancune
• Italian: rancore

• “rancor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rancor 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)
• rancor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

rancor

1. Alternative form of rancour

• rancour
• rancueur

rancor oblique singular, f (oblique plural rancors, nominative singular rancor, nominative plural rancors)

1. ill-will; negative opinion or intention

• English: rancor, rancour
• French: rancœur

Borrowed from Latin rancōrem (“rancor; putridity”).

• Hyphenation: ran‧cor

rancor m (plural rancores)

1. (usually uncountable) rancor; grudge (deep seated animosity)

   Synonyms: odiosidade, ressentimento

   Ainda guardamos rancor pelo que fizeram conosco.

   We still hold a grudge for what you did to us.

• rancorejar
• rancorosamente
• rancoroso