English

Alternative forms

• odour

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.

Usage notes

In the United States, the term "odor" often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are "fragrance", "scent", or "aroma".

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• odorous
• odorously
• odorousness

Translations

Anagrams

• door, ordo, rood

See also

• aroma

Italian

Noun

odor m ‎(invariable)

1. apocopic form of odore

Anagrams

• doro, d'oro, dorò, ordo, rodo, rodò

Latin

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.

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• odōrō
• odōror

Descendants

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “odor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)
    

Portuguese

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

Synonyms

• cheiro, aroma

Venetian

Alternative forms

• udor

Etymology

From Latin odor, odōrem. Compare Italian odore.

Noun

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

1. smell, stink