odor

• odour

From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.də/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.dɚ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊdə(r)
• Homophone: oater (some dialects)

odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors)

1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X

     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.
3. (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem; repute.

In the United States, the term odor often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are "fragrance", "scent", and "aroma".

• (any smell): perfume, scent
• (esteem): esteem, repute
• See also Thesaurus:smell

• in bad odor
• odorous
• odorously
• odorousness

• aroma

• Rood, door, ordo, rood

• IPA^(key): /oˈdor/, [oˈd̪or̺]
• Stress: odór
• Hyphenation: o‧dor

odor m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of odore

• doro, d'oro, dorò, ordo, rodo, rodò

• odōs

Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.dor/, [ˈɔ.dɔr]

odor m (genitive odōris); third declension

1. A smell, perfume, stench.
2. (figuratively) Inkling, suggestion.

Third declension.

• 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, 1883–1887)
• odor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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)
    

odor

1. Alternative form of odour

From Old Portuguese odor (displacing collateral form olor), from Latin odor, odōris, from Old Latin odōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to smell, stink”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.ˈðoɾ/, /o.ˈðoɾ/, /u.ˈðoɾ/
• Hyphenation: o‧dor

odor m (plural odores)

1. odour; smell

• cheiro, aroma

• udor

From Latin odor, odōrem. Compare Italian odore.

odor m (plural odori) or odor m (plural oduri)

1. smell, stink