different between humour vs nature
humour
English
Alternative forms
- humor (American)
Etymology
From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, from Latin humor, correctly umor (“moisture”), from hum?, correctly um? (“to be moist”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?hju?.m?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?hju?m?/, /?ju?m?/
- Hyphenation: hu?mour
- Rhymes: -u?m?(?)
Noun
humour (usually uncountable, plural humours) (British spelling)
- (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.]
- 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation
- For thy sake I admit / That a Scot may have humour, I'd almost said wit.
- A great deal of excellent humour was expended on the perplexities of mine host.
- Synonyms: amusingness, comedy, comicality, wit
- 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation
- (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
- a prince of a pleasant humour
- 1684, Lord Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
- Examine how your humour is inclined, / And which the ruling passion of your mind.
- Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humours to be endured?
- Synonym: mood
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
- (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
- , Book I, New York 2001,page 147:
- A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.
- 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) page 42:
- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
- Synonym: bodily fluid
- , Book I, New York 2001,page 147:
- (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.
Synonyms
- (something funny): comedy, wit, witticism
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Korean: ?? (yumeo)
Translations
Verb
humour (third-person singular simple present humours, present participle humouring, simple past and past participle humoured)
- (transitive) To pacify by indulging.
Translations
See also
- humour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English humour. Doublet of humeur.
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /y.mu?/
- Rhymes: -u?
Noun
humour m (plural humours)
- humor; comic effect in a communication or performance.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “humour” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From English humour.
Noun
humour m (invariable)
- sense of humour
Further reading
- humour in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Middle English
Alternative forms
- humore, umour, humor, humur, humer
Etymology
From Old French humor, from Latin h?mor, ?mor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iu??mu?r/, /?iu?mur/
Noun
humour (plural humours)
- A "cardinal humour" (four liquids believed to affect health and mood)
- A bodily liquid or substance that causes disease or affliction.
- A bodily liquid or substance that is caused by disease.
- One of the two (usually reckoned as three or four) fluidous portions of the eye.
- Any fluid; something which flows or moves in a fluidous manner:
- The liquid contained within a plant; plant juices.
- (rare) A liquid of the human body (e.g. blood)
- A mist or gas; a substance dissipated in the air.
- (rare) One of the four classical elements (fire, earth, air, and water).
Descendants
- English: humour, humor
- Scots: humour
References
- “h?m?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-09.
See also
- (four humours) flewme,? coler,? malencolie,? sanguine [edit]
Old French
Noun
humour m or f
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of humor
humour From the web:
- what humour am i
- what humour means
- what humour do i have
- what humour are you
- what humour is there in macbeth
- what humour is the office
- what's humour in french
- what humour are you test
nature
English
Alternative forms
- natuer (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English nature, natur, from Old French nature, from Latin n?t?ra (“birth, origin, natural constitution or quality”), future participle from perfect passive participle (g)natus (“born”), from deponent verb (g)nasci (“to be born, originate”) + future participle suffix -urus. Displaced native Middle English cunde, icunde (“nature, property, type, genus, character”) (from Old English ?ecynd), Middle English lund (“nature, disposition”) (from Old Norse lund), Middle English burthe (“nature, birth, nation”) (from Old English ?ebyrd and Old Norse *byrðr). More at kind.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ne?t??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ne?t??/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /?n??t??/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?næ??t??/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?næet??/, [?næet??~?n?et??]
- Rhymes: -e?t??(?)
- Hyphenation: na?ture
Noun
nature (countable and uncountable, plural natures)
- (uncountable) The natural world; that which consists of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production, and design. (Compare ecosystem.)
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
- Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
- The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
- 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond, Ch.1:
- Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
- 1869, Horatio Alger, Jr., Mark the Match Boy, chapter 16:
- Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
- 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond, Ch.1:
- The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
- Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
- Kind, sort; character; quality.
- A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
- (obsolete) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
- (obsolete) Natural affection or reverence.
Synonyms
- (innate characteristics of a thing): quintessence, whatness; See also Thesaurus:essence
Derived terms
Pages starting with “nature”.
Related terms
Translations
Verb
nature (third-person singular simple present natures, present participle naturing, simple past and past participle natured)
- (obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
References
- nature at OneLook Dictionary Search
- nature in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "nature" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 219.
- nature in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- nature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- aunter, natuer, tea urn, tea-urn, unrate
Esperanto
Adverb
nature
- naturally
French
Etymology
From Old French nature, borrowed from Latin n?t?ra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na.ty?/
Noun
nature f (plural natures)
- nature
- (grammar) lexical category
Derived terms
Adjective
nature (plural natures)
- plain, unseasoned
- Une brioche nature ou sucrée ?
- File-moi un yaourt nature s’il te plait.
- bareback, raw dog
- Une fellation nature.
Further reading
- “nature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
nature f
- plural of natura
Adjective
nature (invariable)
- natural
Anagrams
- neutra
Latin
Participle
n?t?re
- vocative masculine singular of n?t?rus
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French nature, from Latin n?t?ra.
Noun
nature f
- nature, force of nature
- laws of nature, natural order
- nature, innate characteristics
- kind, sort
- origin
- sexual fertility, sex drive
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: natuur
- Limburgish: netuur, netuuer
Further reading
- “nature”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “nature”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Middle English
Alternative forms
- natur, natour, nateure, nater
Etymology
From Old French nature, from Latin n?t?ra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na??tiu?r/
Noun
nature (plural natures)
- The Universe, existence, creation
- nature, the natural world
- natural abilities
- natural inevitability, nature (as opposed to nurture)
- natural morals, natural law
- natural needs or requirements
- nature, state, condition
- species, kind, type
- Nature (allegory)
Related terms
- natural
Descendants
- English: nature
- Scots: natur, naitur, naeter, nature
- Yola: naatur
References
- “n?t?r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French nature, borrowed from Latin n?t?ra.
Noun
nature f (plural natures)
- nature
Descendants
- French: nature
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin n?t?ra.
Noun
nature f (oblique plural natures, nominative singular nature, nominative plural natures)
- nature (natural world; nonhuman world)
- nature (character; qualities)
Descendants
- ? Middle English: nature
- English: nature
- Middle French: nature
- French: nature
- ? Welsh: natur
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