odor

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• odour

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.də/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.dɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊdə(r)

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.

Synonyms

• (any smell): perfume, scent
• (esteem): esteem, repute
• See also Wikisaurus:smell

Derived terms

• odorous
• odorously
• odorousness

Translations

any smell — see odour

strong, pervasive quality

• Finnish: ominaispiirre (fi)

• Norwegian: odør m, stank m, lukt (no)

esteem, repute

• Finnish: maine (fi)

Anagrams

• door, ordo, rood

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Italian

Noun

odor m (invariable)

1. apocopic form of odore

Anagrams

• doro, d'oro, dorò, ordo, rodo, rodò

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Latin

Alternative forms

• odōs

Etymology

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

Noun

odor m (genitive odōris); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	odor	odōrēs
genitive	odōris	odōrum
dative	odōrī	odōribus
accusative	odōrem	odōrēs
ablative	odōre	odōribus
vocative	odor	odōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: olor
• English: odor, odour
• French: odeur
• Italian: odore

• Portuguese: odor
• Romanian: urdoare
• Spanish: olor

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian odore

Noun

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

1. smell, stink