odor

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See also: Odor, Ódor, odór, odôr, odør, O'Dor, and O'dor

English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.

Pronunciation

Noun

odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors) (American spelling)

  1. 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.
  2. (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."
  3. (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem.
    Synonyms: esteem, repute
  4. (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.

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

See also

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *omte.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈodor]
  • Hyphenation: odor
  • Rhymes: -or

Noun

odor (plural odorok or odrok)

  1. (dialectal) hollow, cavity
    Synonym: üreg
  2. (dialectal) the place for fodder in the barn
  3. (geology) geode (a nodule of stone having a cavity)
    Synonym: üreges kőzet
  4. (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

References

  1. ^ 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

  • IPA(key): /oˈdor/
  • Rhymes: -or
  • Hyphenation: o‧dór

Noun

odor m (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of odore

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).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

odor m (genitive odōris); third declension

  1. A smell, perfume, stench.
  2. (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[1], 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)
  1. ^ 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

From Latin odōrem.

Noun

odor

  1. a smell

Middle English

Noun

odor

  1. Alternative form of odour

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese odor (displacing collateral form olor), from Latin odōrem.

Pronunciation

 
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔˈdoɾ/ [ɔˈðoɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔˈdo.ɾi/ [ɔˈðo.ɾi]

  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: o‧dor

Noun

odor m (plural odores)

  1. odour; smell
    Synonyms: cheiro, aroma

Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French odeur, Latin odor.

Noun

odor f (plural odoruri)

  1. smell
    Synonym: miros
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian odor.

Noun

odor n (plural odoare)

  1. treasure
Declension

Venetian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin odor, odōrem. Compare Italian odore.

Noun

odor m (plural odori) or odor m (plural oduri)

  1. smell, stink