odor

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

English

Alternative forms

• odour

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/

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊdə(ɹ)
• Homophone: oater (some dialects)

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.
   • 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

• body odor
• fish odor syndrome
• in bad odor
• in good odor
• odor of sanctity
• odorous
• odorously
• odorousness

 

Translations

any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume

• Arabic: رَائِحَة (ar) f (rāʔiḥa), (plural) رَوَائِح f pl (rawāʔiḥ), رِيحَة f (rīḥa)
• Armenian: հոտ (hy) (hot)
• Azerbaijani: qoxu (az)
• Bashkir: еҫ (yeś)
• Basque: usain
• Belarusian: пах m (pax)
• Bengali: গন্ধ (bn) (gondho)
• Brunei Malay: bau
• Bulgarian: миризма (bg) f (mirizma)
• Cherokee: ᎦᏩᏒᎩ (gawasvgi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氣味／气味 (hei³ mei⁶)

  Hokkien: 氣味／气味 (zh-min-nan) (khì-bī)

  Mandarin: 氣味／气味 (zh) (qìwèi)

• Czech: pach (cs) m
• Dutch: reuk (nl) f
• Egyptian: (sṯ)
• Esperanto: odoro (eo)
• Finnish: tuoksu (fi), haju (fi)
• French: odeur (fr) f
• Georgian: სუნი (suni), სურნელი (surneli)
• German: Geruch (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃 f (dauns)
• Greek: οσμή (el) f (osmí), μυρωδιά (el) f (myrodiá)

  Ancient: ὀσμή f (osmḗ)

• Hebrew: ריח (he) m (réakh)
• Hindi: गंध (hi) f (gandh)
• Hungarian: szag (hu)
• Icelandic: lykt (is) f
• Ingrian: haju, haiso, haisu
• Irish: tuth f
• Italian: odore (it) m
• Japanese: 匂い (ja) (におい, nioi)
• Kazakh: иіс (iıs)
• Korean: 냄새 (ko) (naemsae)
• Latin: odor m
• Macedonian: ми́рис (mk) m (míris), ми́ризба f (mírizba)
• Malay: bau (ms)
• Middle English: odour, flavour
• Mongolian: анхилга (mn) (anxilga), үнэр (mn) (üner)
• Neapolitan: addore m
• Pashto: بوى m (buy)
• Persian: بو (fa) (bu)
• Plautdietsch: Jeroch n
• Polish: zapach (pl) m
• Portuguese: odor (pt) m
• Romanian: mireasmă (ro) f, miros (ro) n
• Russian: за́пах (ru) m (zápax)
• Sanskrit: गन्ध (sa) m (gandha)
• Scottish Gaelic: boladh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ми̏рӣс m

  Roman: mȉrīs (sh) m

• Slovak: vôňa f
• Slovene: vonj (sl) f
• Spanish: olor (es) m
• Swedish: lukt (sv) c, odör (sv) c
• Thai: กลิ่น (th) (glìn)
• Tocharian B: were
• Turkish: koku (tr), rayiha (tr)
• Tày: ai
• Ukrainian: за́пах m (zápax)
• Vietnamese: mùi (vi), hơi (vi)
• Yiddish: גערוך (gerukh), ריח (reyekh)

strong, pervasive quality

• Cherokee: ᎦᏩᏒᎩ (gawasvgi)
• Finnish: ominaispiirre (fi)
• Norwegian: odør m, stank m, lukt (no)

esteem, repute

• Bulgarian: репутация (bg) f (reputacija)
• Finnish: maine (fi)

See also

• aroma

Anagrams

• Rood, ordo, oord, rood, door

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *omte.

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

• odras
• odros
• odroz

 

Related terms

• odú

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

• d'oro, doro, dorò, ordo, rodo, rodo-, rodò

Latin

Alternative forms

• odōs

Etymology

Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Italic *odōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éd-os, from *h₃ed- (“to smell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈo.dor/, [ˈɔd̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.dor/, [ˈɔːd̪or]

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

• odōrō
• odōror

Descendants

• Asturian: golor
• Catalan: olor
• → Czech: odér
• → Esperanto: odoro
  • → Ido: odoro
• Friulian: odôr, nulôr
• Italian: odore
• Occitan: odor, olor
• Old French: odor
  • Anglo-Norman: odour
    • → Middle English: odour
      • English: odor, odour
  • French: odeur
    • → Swedish: odör
• Portuguese: odor
• Romanian: odor, odoare, urdoare
• Romansch: odur, udur, odour
• → Sicilian: uduri
• Spanish: olor
• Venetan: odor, udor

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)
    

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈdoʁ/ [oˈdoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈdoʁ/ [oˈdoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /oˈdoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /oˈdoʁ/ [oˈdoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈdoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈdoɾ/ [ɔˈðoɾ]

• (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

• odoare

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French odeur, Latin odor.

Noun

odor f (plural odoruri)

1. smell

   Synonym: miros

Declension

Declension of odor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) odor	odorul	(niște) odoruri	odorurile
genitive/dative	(unui) odor	odorului	(unor) odoruri	odorurilor
vocative	—		—

Related terms

• odora

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian odor.

Noun

odor n (plural odoare)

1. treasure

Declension

Declension of odor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) odor	odorul	(niște) odoare	odoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) odor	odorului	(unor) odoare	odoarelor
vocative	odorule		odoarelor

Venetian

Alternative forms

• udor

Etymology

From Latin odor, odōrem. Compare Italian odore.

Noun

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

1. smell, stink