different between fragrance vs myrrhic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fragrance, from Latin fragrantia. See fragrant.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr??-gr?ns, IPA^(key): /?f?e????ns/

Noun

fragrance (countable and uncountable, plural fragrances)

1. A pleasant smell or odour.

Synonyms

• (pleasant smell): aroma

Translations

Verb

fragrance (third-person singular simple present fragrances, present participle fragrancing, simple past and past participle fragranced)

1. (transitive) To apply a fragrance to; to perfume.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin fragrantia, from fragr?, fragr?re. Related to flairer, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?a.????s/

Noun

fragrance f (plural fragrances)

1. a fragrance, a pleasurable smell

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

myrrh +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m???ik/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m??ik/
• Hyphenation: myrrh?ic

Adjective

myrrhic (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or derived from myrrh.
2. (poetic) Having a pleasant fragrance; aromatic.
   • 1916, Emanuel Morgan [pseudonym; Witter Brynner], “The Locust-tree”, in Anne Knish [pseudonym; Arthur Davison Ficke]; Emanuel Morgan, Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments, New York, N.Y.: Mitchell Kennerley, OCLC 10672070, archived from the original on 22 July 2012, opus 45:

     All the fragrances of dew, O angel, are there, / The myrrhic rapture of young hair, […]

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:myrrhic.

Related terms

• myrrh
• myrrhic acid
• myrrhine

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