different between odor vs sent

English

Alternative forms

• odour

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?.d?/
  • (US)
• Rhymes: -??d?(r)
• Homophone: oater (some dialects)

Noun

odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors) (American spelling)

1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.

   Synonyms: scent, perfume; see also Thesaurus:smell

   • 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.

   Synonyms: esteem, repute

4. (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.

Usage notes

The term odo(u)r often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are fragrance, scent, and aroma.

Derived terms

• in bad odor
• odorous
• odorously
• odorousness

Translations

See also

• aroma

Anagrams

• Rood, door, ordo, rood

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?dor/
• Hyphenation: o?dór

Noun

odor m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of odore

Anagrams

• doro, d'oro, dorò, ordo, rodo, rodò

Latin

Alternative forms

• od?s

Etymology

Via rhotacism from Old Latin od?s (plural: od?ses), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.dor/, [??d??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.dor/, [???d??r]

Noun

odor m (genitive od?ris); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• od?r?
• od?ror

Descendants

References

• 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?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Noun

odor

1. Alternative form of odour

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese odor (displacing collateral form olor), from Latin odor, od?ris, from Old Latin od?s, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed- (“to smell, stink”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.?ðo?/, /o.?ðo?/, /u.?ðo?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.?do?/, /o.?do?/
• Hyphenation: o?dor

Noun

odor m (plural odores)

1. odour; smell

   Synonyms: cheiro, aroma

Romanian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian odor

Noun

odor n (plural odoare)

1. treasure

Declension

Venetian

Alternative forms

• udor

Etymology

From Latin odor, od?rem. Compare Italian odore.

Noun

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

1. smell, stink

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?nt, IPA^(key): /s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophones: cent, scent

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

From send +? -t. See send.

Verb

sent

1. simple past tense and past participle of send

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Estonian sent. Doublet of cent.

Noun

sent (plural senti)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Estonian kroon.

Etymology 3

See scent.

Noun

sent (countable and uncountable, plural sents)

1. Obsolete form of scent.

Anagrams

• ENTs, NEST, Sten, TENS, ents, nest, nets, snet, tens

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch cent, from English cent or French centime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?nt/

Noun

sent (plural sente)

1. cent (one hundredth of a currency)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?sen/
• Homophone: cent

Etymology 1

Verb

sent

1. present participle of ésser
2. present participle of ser

Alternative forms

• essent

Etymology 2

Verb

sent

1. third-person singular present indicative form of sentir
2. second-person singular imperative form of sentir

Danish

Adjective

sent

1. neuter singular of sen

Estonian

Noun

sent (genitive sendi, partitive senti)

1. cent

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• ? English: sent

Faroese

Verb

sent

1. past participle of senda

French

Pronunciation

Verb

sent

1. third-person singular present indicative of sentir

Anagrams

• n'est

Gagauz

Noun

sent

1. saint

Icelandic

Noun

sent n

1. cent (one-hundredth of a euro)

Verb

sent

1. past participle of senda

Middle Dutch

Adverb

sent

1. Alternative form of sint

Conjunction

sent

1. Alternative form of sint

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

sent m (plural sents)

1. (Guernsey) smell

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

sent

1. neuter singular of sen

Old Norse

Participle

sent

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of sendr

Verb

sent

1. supine of senda

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??t/

Numeral

sent

1. (a) hundred

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?nt/

Adjective

sent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of sen.

Adverb

sent (comparative senare, superlative senast)

1. late

Anagrams

• Sten, sten, tens