languor
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Middle English langour, langor, borrowed from Old French langueur, from Latin languor (“faintness, languor”), from languere (“to feel faint, languish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlæŋɡəɹ/
- Rhymes: -æŋɡə(ɹ)
Noun
languor (countable and uncountable, plural languors)
- (uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude
- languor of convalescence
- (countable) listless indolence; dreaminess
- a certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer -- James Purdy
- (uncountable) dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnation
- from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity -- Elinor Wylie
- (obsolete, countable) An enfeebling disease; suffering
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Translations
a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling
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Further reading
- languor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- languor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- languor at OneLook Dictionary Search
Latin
Etymology
From langueō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlan.ɡʷor/, [ˈɫaŋ.ɡʷɔr]
Inflection
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | languor | languōrēs |
Genitive | languōris | languōrum |
Dative | languōrī | languōribus |
Accusative | languōrem | languōrēs |
Ablative | languōre | languōribus |
Vocative | languor | languōrēs |
Descendants
References
- languor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- languor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- languor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy: desidiae et languori se dedere
- to weary, bore the reader: languorem, molestiam legentium animis afferre
- to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy: desidiae et languori se dedere
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [la̠ŋˈɡuo̞ɾ]
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