odor

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/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.dɚ/

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

Noun

odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors)

1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X

     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.
3. (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem; repute.

See also

• aroma

Anagrams

• Rood, door, ordo, rood

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈdor/, [oˈd̪or̺]
• Stress: odór
• Hyphenation: o‧dor

Noun

odor m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of odore

Anagrams

• doro, d'oro, dorò, ordo, rodo, rodò

Alternative forms

• odōs

Etymology

Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.dor/, [ˈɔ.dɔr]

Noun

odor m (genitive odōris); third declension

1. A smell, perfume, stench.
2. (figuratively) Inkling, suggestion.

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, 1883–1887)
• odor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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)
    

Etymology

From Old Portuguese odor (displacing collateral form olor), from Latin odor, odōris, from Old Latin odōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to smell, stink”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.ˈðoɾ/, /o.ˈðoɾ/, /u.ˈðoɾ/
• Hyphenation: o‧dor

Noun

odor m (plural odores)

1. odour; smell

Alternative forms

• udor

Etymology

From Latin odor, odōrem. Compare Italian odore.

Noun

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

1. smell, stink