English

Noun

odium ‎(countable and uncountable, plural odiums)

1. Hatred; dislike.

   His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
   • Dryden

     She threw the odium of the fact on me.

Related terms

• odious

Latin

Etymology

From odi.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.di.um/, [ˈɔ.di.ũ]

Noun

odium n ‎(genitive odiī); second declension

1. a hated thing
2. hatred

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• odiōsus

Related terms

• odisse

Descendants

References

• odium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• odium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ODIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “odium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to incur a person's hatred: in odium, in invidiam venire alicui
    
  • to incur a person's hatred: alicuius odium subire, suscipere, in se convertere, sibi conflare
    
  • to incur a person's hatred: in alicuius odium incurrere
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: in invidiam, odium (alicuius) vocare aliquem
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: invidiam, odium ex-, concitare alicui, in aliquem
    
  • to glut one's hatred: odium explere aliqua re (Liv. 4. 32)
    
  • to conceive an implacable hatred against a man: odium implacabile suscipere in aliquem
    
  • to cherish an inveterate animosity against some one: odium inveteratum habere in aliquem (Vat. 3. 6)
    
  • to kindle hatred in a person's heart; to fill some one with hatred (not implere, vid. sect. IX. 2, note gaudio...): odium alicuius inflammare
    
  • to stifle, drown one's hatred: odium restinguere, exstinguere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hated by some one: odio, invidiae esse alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hated by some one: in odio esse apud aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to be separated by a deadly hatred: capitali odio dissidere ab aliquo (De Am. 1. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be consumed with hatred: odio or invidia alicuius ardere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be fired with a passionate hatred: odio inflammatum, accensum esse