humeur

From Middle Dutch humuere, from Old French, from Latin humor.

• IPA^(key): /ɦyˈmøːr/

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• Hyphenation: hu‧meur
• Rhymes: -øːr

humeur n (plural humeuren, diminutive humeurtje n)

1. mood, mental state

When humeur is used of a specific person's mood without a qualifying adjective, it may mean “bad mood”. If preceded on the other hand by the prepositions in or uit without a qualifier, the meaning is usually “good mood”. Note that the phrase uit zijn humeur “out of one's good mood” commonly means “in a bad mood”.

• gemoed n
• luim m

• humeurig, humeurigheid
• hum n (jocular abbreviation)

From Old French humor, humour, borrowed from Latin humor, humorem. Doublet of humour.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /y.mœʁ/

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humeur f (plural humeurs)

1. humour/humor (the liquid in the body)
2. mental state, either temperamental or as temporary mood

• de bonne humeur

• humoral
• humour m
• humide

• “humeur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).