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)

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	odor	odrok
accusative	odrot	odrokat
dative	odornak	odroknak
instrumental	odorral	odrokkal
causal-final	odorért	odrokért
translative	odorrá	odrokká
terminative	odorig	odrokig
essive-formal	odorként	odrokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	odorban	odrokban
superessive	odron	odrokon
adessive	odornál	odroknál
illative	odorba	odrokba
sublative	odorra	odrokra
allative	odorhoz	odrokhoz
elative	odorból	odrokból
delative	odorról	odrokról
ablative	odortól	odroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	odoré	odroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	odoréi	odrokéi

Possessive forms of odor
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	odrom	odraim
2nd person sing.	odrod	odraid
3rd person sing.	odra	odrai
1st person plural	odrunk	odraink
2nd person plural	odrotok	odraitok
3rd person plural	odruk	odraik

or

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	odor	odorok
accusative	odort	odorokat
dative	odornak	odoroknak
instrumental	odorral	odorokkal
causal-final	odorért	odorokért
translative	odorrá	odorokká
terminative	odorig	odorokig
essive-formal	odorként	odorokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	odorban	odorokban
superessive	odoron	odorokon
adessive	odornál	odoroknál
illative	odorba	odorokba
sublative	odorra	odorokra
allative	odorhoz	odorokhoz
elative	odorból	odorokból
delative	odorról	odorokról
ablative	odortól	odoroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	odoré	odoroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	odoréi	odorokéi

Possessive forms of odor
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	odorom	odoraim
2nd person sing.	odorod	odoraid
3rd person sing.	odora	odorai
1st person plural	odorunk	odoraink
2nd person plural	odorotok	odoraitok
3rd person plural	odoruk	odoraik

• 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