ardor

• ardour (chiefly British and Canadian)

From Middle English ardour, ardowr, ardure, from Anglo-Norman ardour, from Old French ardur, from Latin ardor, from ardere (“to burn”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɹdɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

ardor (countable and uncountable, plural ardors) (American spelling)

1. Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 120:

     I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished.

2. Spirit; enthusiasm; passion.
3. Intense heat.

• (warmth of feeling): intensity
• (spirit): elan, fire in the belly, passion, zeal

• apathy

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ərˈdo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾˈðoɾ]

ardor m (plural ardors)

1. heat
2. ardor, passion

From Old Spanish, from Latin ardor.

ardor m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ארדור)

1. ardor, passion

From ārdeō +‎ -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaːr.dor/, [ˈäːrd̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.dor/, [ˈärd̪or]

ārdor m (genitive ārdōris); third declension

1. flame, fire, heat

   Synonym: calor

2. brightness, brilliancy (of the eyes)
3. ardour, eagerness, ardent desire

   Synonyms: cupīdō, vehementia, dēsīderium, appetītus, studium, impetus, amor, appetītiō, libīdō, alacritās

4. the object of ardent affection, love, flame

   Synonym: amor

Third-declension noun.

• “ardor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ardor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ardor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be dried up by the sun's heat: ardore solis torreri
    
  • enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
    
  • to damp, chill enthusiasm: ardorem animi restinguere
    
  • his enthusiasm has abated, cooled down: ardor animi resēdit, consedit
    

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin ārdōrem.

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

ardor m (plural ardores)

1. burning sensation

   Synonym: queimação

2. ardor (warmth of feeling)
3. spirit; enthusiasm

   Synonym: entusiasmo

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ardor.

• ardência
• ardentemente
• arder
• ardido

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin ardōrem.

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈdoɾ/ [aɾˈð̞oɾ]

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ar‧dor

ardor m (plural ardores)

1. ardor/ardour
2. fervor, heat

   Synonym: fervor

3. passion

   Synonym: pasión

4. burning (feeling)

   una sensación de ardor ― a burning sensation

5. eagerness

   Synonyms: avidez, ancia

• “ardor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28