different between dolor vs ennui

English

Alternative forms

• dolour (British)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English dolour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman dolour, mainland Old French dolor (modern douleur), from Latin dolor (“pain, grief”). Doublet of dol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?l?(?)/, /?do?l?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)
• Homophone: dollar (some accents)

Noun

dolor (countable and uncountable, plural dolors)

1. (literary) Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish.
2. A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.

   Synonym: dol

   Antonym: hedon

Translations

See also

• (unit of pain): util

Anagrams

• drool, loord

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin dolor, dol?rem.

Noun

dolor m (plural dolores)

1. pain

Related terms

• doler

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan dolor, from Latin dolor, dol?r (“pain, sorrow”), from Proto-Italic *dol?s, from Proto-Indo-European *dolh??s, derived from the root *delh?- (“to split, divide”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o(?)

Noun

dolor m or f (plural dolors)

1. pain of a continuing nature, especially that of rheumatism
2. sorrow or grief of a continuing nature

Derived terms

• dolor reumàtic
• Dolors

Related terms

• doler, doldre (verb)
• dolorós (adjective)

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish dolor (“pain”).

Noun

dolor

1. pain; ache

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish dolor, from Latin dolor, dol?rem.

Noun

dolor f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ??????)

1. pain

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dol?s, from Proto-Indo-European *delh?- (“to hew, to split”, verbal root).

Synchronically, from dole? +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?do.lor/, [?d?????r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?do.lor/, [?d???l?r]

Noun

dolor m (genitive dol?ris); third declension

1. pain, ache, hurt
2. anguish, grief, sorrow
3. indignation, resentment, anger

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• dolor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dolor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dolor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• dolor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Occitan

Alternative forms

• doulour (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan dolor, from Latin dolor, dol?rem (“pain, sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [du?lu]

Noun

dolor m or f (plural dolors)

1. pain

Related terms

• dòlre / dòler

Old French

Alternative forms

• dolur, dulor, dulur

Etymology

From Latin dolor, dol?rem.

Noun

dolor m (oblique plural dolors, nominative singular dolors, nominative plural dolor)

1. pain; suffering

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: dolour
• French: douleur f

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin dolor, dol?rem.

Noun

dolor m or f

1. pain

Related terms

• doloros (adjective)

Descendants

• Catalan: dolor
• Occitan: dolor

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish dolor, from Latin dol?rem, accusative of dolor (“pain; grief”), from Proto-Italic *dol?s, from Proto-Indo-European *dolh??s, derived from the root *delh?- (“to split, divide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?lo?/, [d?o?lo?]
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

dolor m (plural dolores)

1. pain, ache, aching soreness, tenderness (physical)

2. grief
3. sorrow, hurt, pain, suffering (emotional, mental)
4. sore (in certain expressions)

5. heartache

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (modern French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodi?, from Latin in odi? (“hated”). Doublet of annoy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?wi?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?wi/

Noun

ennui (countable and uncountable, plural ennuis)

1. A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

Quotations

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

Synonyms

• acedia
• weltschmerz
• boredom

Related terms

Translations

Verb

ennui (third-person singular simple present ennuis, present participle ennuying, simple past and past participle ennuied or ennuyed)

1. (transitive) To make bored or listless; to weary.

French

Etymology

From Old French enui, probably from the verb enuier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.n?i/
• Homophones: ennuie, ennuient, ennuies, ennuis
• Rhymes: -?i

Noun

ennui m (plural ennuis)

1. (uncountable) Boredom; lassitude.
   • 1832, Honoré de Balzac, La Femme de Trente Ans, Chapter 3,

     Notre ennui, nos mœurs fades sont le résultat du système politique. — Our boredom, our insipid customs, are the result of the political system.

2. (uncountable) Trouble, issue, annoyance.
   • 1883, Emile Zola, La joie de vivre

     — Mon Dieu ! nous étions d’une inquiétude ! dit le père qui avait suivi son fils, malgré le vent. Qu’est-il donc arrivé ?
     — Oh ! des ennuis tout le temps, expliqua-t-elle. D’abord, les chemins sont si mauvais, qu’il a fallu près de deux heures pour venir de Bayeux. Puis, à Arromanches, voilà qu’un cheval de Malivoire se casse une patte ; et il n’a pu nous en donner un autre, j’ai vu le moment qu’il nous faudrait coucher chez lui… Enfin, le docteur a eu l’obligeance de nous prêter son cabriolet. Ce brave Martin nous a conduites…

     "We have been very anxious about you," said the father, who had followed his son, in spite of the wind. "What has happened to make you so late ?"
     " Oh ! we've had nothing but troubles," she answered. "To begin with, the roads are so bad that it has taken us nearly two hours to come from Bayeux. Then, at Arromanches, one of Malivoire's horses went lame and he couldn't let us have another. At one time I really thought we should have to stay with him all night. But the Doctor was kind enough to offer us his gig, and Martin here has driven us home."

Usage notes

• In the sense of "trouble", the word is almost solely used in the expression l'ennui avec (“the trouble with”) or as a plural tantum (see ennuis).

Related terms

• ennuyer
• ennuyeux

Further reading

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