humor

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːmɚ/, /ˈjuːmɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hjuː.mə(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: hu‧mor
• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

• Audio (US)

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Noun

humor (usually uncountable, plural humors)

1. American spelling of humour

   He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.

   • 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), page 40:

     For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.

Verb

humor (third-person singular simple present humors, present participle humoring, simple past and past participle humored)

1. American spelling of humour

   I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on humor
• Wikipedia article on humors
• humor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• humor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• humor at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• mohur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humor, humorem.

Noun

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood (mental state)
2. humour

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humor, humorem.

Noun

humor m (plural humors)

1. humour

Pronunciation

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Noun

humor m

1. humor (US), humour (UK) (source of amusement)

Further reading

• humor in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• humor in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Noun

humor c (singular definite humoren, not used in plural form)

1. humour (amusement)

Etymology

Borrowed from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin humor. See also: humore, humeur, humoor, humoristisch, and humuer.

The meaning of humor as in "a sense of amusement" entered Dutch from the US spelling of humour around ~1839.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦymɔr/

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mor

Noun

humor m (plural humoren or humores)

1. (uncountable) humour (sense of amusement)
2. (countable, archaic) humour (bodily fluid) [from the 15th c.]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humor.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhumor]

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mor

Noun

humor (plural humorok)

1. humour, humor

References

Alternative forms

• ūmor

Etymology

Alternative spelling of ūmor found in the later Roman Empire, when the letter h had already become silent. See also the related hūmidus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhuː.mor/, [ˈhuː.mɔr]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.mor/, [ˈuː.mɔr]

Noun

hūmor m (genitive hūmōris); third declension

1. liquid, fluid, humour

Verb

humor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of humō

References

• humor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• humor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Etymology

From Latin humor, via German Humor and English humour or humor

Noun

humor m (definite singular humoren)

1. humour (UK) or humor (US)

References

• “humor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Latin humor, via German Humor and English humour or humor

Noun

humor m (definite singular humoren)

1. humor (US) or humour (UK)

References

• “humor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• humour (less common)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humor, humorem.

Noun

humor m, f

1. humor (One of four fluids that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Humor, ultimately from Latin humor. See humor for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxumɔr]

Noun

humor m inan

1. humour
2. mood (mental state)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese umor, humor, borrowed from Latin hūmōr, hūmōrem (“humour, fluid”).

Pronunciation

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /u.ˈmoɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.ˈmoɻ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ˈmoɾ/

Noun

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood (mental state)
2. humour; bodily fluid
3. (historical) humour (one of the four basic bodily fluids in humourism)
4. humour (quality of being comical)

Etymology

Borrowed from English humor, from Latin humor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xǔmor/
• Hyphenation: hu‧mor

Noun

hùmor m (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)

1. (uncountable) humor

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humor, humorem.

Noun

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood
2. humor

Etymology

Originally from Latin humor (“fluid”), having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör (“mood, temper”). The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.

Pronunciation

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Noun

humor c

1. humour (a sense of making jokes)

References

• humor, humör in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• humor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.