odor

• odour

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.də/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.dɚ/

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

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.

The term odo(u)r often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are fragrance, scent, and aroma.

• aroma

• Rood, ordo, oord, rood, door

From Proto-Uralic *omte.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈodor]
• Hyphenation: odor
• Rhymes: -or

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)

or

• odú

• 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

• IPA^(key): /oˈdor/
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: o‧dór

odor m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of odore

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

• odōs

Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Italic *odōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éd-os, from *h₃ed- (“to smell”).^[1]

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

odor m (genitive odōris); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

• odōrō
• odōror

• “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)
    

From Latin odōrem.

odor

1. a smell

odor

1. Alternative form of odour

From Old Galician-Portuguese odor (displacing collateral form olor), from Latin odōrem.

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: o‧dor

odor m (plural odores)

1. odour; smell

   Synonyms: cheiro, aroma

• odoare

Borrowed from French odeur, Latin odor.

odor f (plural odoruri)

1. smell

   Synonym: miros

• odora

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian odor.

odor n (plural odoare)

1. treasure

• udor

From Latin odor, odōrem. Compare Italian odore.

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

1. smell, stink