languor

Alternative forms

• languour

Etymology

From the Middle English langour, langor, from the Old French langueur, from Latin languor (“faintness, languor”), from languere (“to feel faint, languish”).

Noun

languor (countable and uncountable, plural languors)

1. (uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude

   languor of convalescence

2. (countable) listless indolence; dreaminess

   a certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer -- James Purdy

3. (uncountable) dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnation

   from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity -- Elinor Wylie

4. (obsolete, countable) An enfeebling disease; suffering

Further reading

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

Etymology

From langueō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlan.ɡʷor/, [ˈɫaŋ.ɡʷɔr]

Noun

languor m (genitive languōris); third declension

1. faintness, feebleness, languor, apathy

References

• languor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• languor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• languor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy: desidiae et languori se dedere
    
  • to weary, bore the reader: languorem, molestiam legentium animis afferre
    

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin languor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [la̠ŋˈɡuo̞ɾ]

Noun

languor m (plural languores)

1. (rare) languor