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humor
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?hju?m?/, /?ju?m?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hju?.m?(?)/
- Hyphenation: hu?mor
- Rhymes: -u?m?(?)
Noun
humor (usually uncountable, plural humors)
- US spelling of humour
- 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), page 40:
- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
- 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), page 40:
Verb
humor (third-person singular simple present humors, present participle humoring, simple past and past participle humored)
- US spelling of humour
Further reading
- Wikipedia article on humor
- Wikipedia article on humors
- humor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- humor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- humor at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- mohur
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin h?mor, h?m?rem.
Noun
humor m (plural humores)
- mood (mental state)
- humour
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin h?mor, h?m?rem.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /u?mo/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /u?mo?/
Noun
humor m (plural humors)
- humour
Derived terms
- humorós
Related terms
- humit
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??umor]
Noun
humor m
- humor (US), humour (UK) (source of amusement)
Derived terms
Further reading
- humor in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- humor in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
From Latin (h)?mor (“fluid”). Doublet of humør (“spirits, mood”). The modern use of this word for mental processes goes back to Ancient and Medieval theories about the four fluids of the body.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hu?m?r/, [?hu?m?]
Noun
humor c (singular definite humoren, not used in plural form)
- humour (amusement and the sense of amusement)
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin h?mor. See also: humore, humeur, humoor, humoristisch, and humuer.
The meaning of humor as in "a sense of amusement" entered Dutch from the US spelling of humour around ~1839.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ym?r/
- Hyphenation: hu?mor
Noun
humor m (plural humoren or humores)
- (uncountable) humour (sense of amusement)
- (countable, archaic) humour (bodily fluid) [from the 15th c.]
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin h?mor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?humor]
- Hyphenation: hu?mor
- Rhymes: -or
Noun
humor (plural humorok)
- humour, humor
Declension
Derived terms
- humoros
References
Latin
Etymology 1
Alternative spelling of ?mor found in the later Roman Empire, when the letter h had already become silent. See also the related h?midus.
Alternative forms
- ?mor
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?hu?.mor/, [?hu?m?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?u.mor/, [?u?m?r]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?u?.mor/, [?u?m?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?u.mor/, [?u?m?r]
Noun
h?mor m (genitive h?m?ris); third declension
- liquid, fluid, humour
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?hu.mor/, [?h?m?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?u.mor/, [?u?m?r]
Verb
humor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of hum?
References
- humor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- humor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle English
Noun
humor
- Alternative form of humour
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin h?mor, via German Humor and English humour or humor
Noun
humor m (definite singular humoren)
- humour (UK) or humor (US)
Derived terms
- galgenhumor
References
- “humor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin h?mor, via German Humor and English humour or humor
Noun
humor m (definite singular humoren)
- humor (US) or humour (UK)
Derived terms
- galgenhumor
References
- “humor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
- humour (less common)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin h?mor, h?m?rem.
Noun
humor m or f
- humor (one of four fluids that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body)
Descendants
- ? Middle English: humour
- English: humour, humor
- Scots: humour
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Humor, ultimately from Latin h?mor. See humor for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xu.m?r/
Noun
humor m inan
- humour
- mood (mental state)
Declension
Further reading
- humor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese umor, humor, borrowed from Latin h?mor, h?m?rem (“humour, fluid”).
Pronunciation
- (Paulista) IPA(key): /u.?mo?/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /u.?mo?/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /u.?mo?/
Noun
humor m (plural humores)
- mood (mental state)
- Synonyms: disposição, espírito, temperamento
- humour; bodily fluid
- (historical) humour (one of the four basic bodily fluids in humourism)
- Hyponyms: bile amarela, bile negra, fleuma, sangue
- humour (quality of being comical)
- Synonyms: comédia, comicidade, graça
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:humor.
Derived terms
Related terms
Romanian
Noun
humor n (plural humoare)
- Alternative form of umor
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English humor, from Latin h?mor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /x?mor/
- Hyphenation: hu?mor
Noun
hùmor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- (uncountable) humor
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin h?mor, h?m?rem. Cognate with English humor.
Noun
humor m (plural humores)
- mood
- humor
Derived terms
Related terms
Swedish
Etymology
Originally from Latin h?mor (“fluid”), having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör (“mood, temper”). The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.
Pronunciation
Noun
humor c
- humour (a sense of making jokes)
Declension
Related terms
References
- humor, humör in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- humor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
humor From the web:
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imagination
English
Etymology
From Middle English ymaginacioun, from Old French imaginacion, ymaginacion, from Latin im?gin?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mæd???ne???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
imagination (countable and uncountable, plural imaginations)
- The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
- Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
- Creativity; resourcefulness.
- A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.
- Synonyms: conception, notion, imagining
- 1597, Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", Essays:
- And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
Synonyms
- (the representative power): creativity, fancy, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness
Translations
Further reading
- imagination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French imaginacion, borrowed from Latin im?gin?ti?, im?gin?ti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.ma.?i.na.sj??/
Noun
imagination f (plural imaginations)
- (countable and uncountable) imagination
Related terms
- image
- imaginer
- imaginatif
Further reading
- “imagination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Alternative forms
- ymagination
Etymology
From Old French imaginacion, borrowed from Latin im?gin?ti?.
Noun
imagination f (plural imaginations)
- (countable and uncountable) imagination
- thought; reflection; idea
Related terms
- imaginer
Descendants
- French: imagination
imagination From the web:
- what imagination means
- what imagination can do
- what imagination is the creative side of man
- what imagination in english
- what imagination definition
- what imagination sentence
- imagination what part of the brain
- imagination what if
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