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odor
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)
- 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.
- (figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem.
- Synonyms: esteem, repute
- (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)
- 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
- A smell, perfume, stench.
- (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
- 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)
- odour; smell
- Synonyms: cheiro, aroma
Romanian
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian odor
Noun
odor n (plural odoare)
- 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)
- smell, stink
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small
English
Pronunciation
- (UK)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sm??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- (US)
- (General American) IPA(key): /sm?l/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /sm?l/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /sm?l/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /smo?l/
Etymology
From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ?????? (mályj, “small”).
Adjective
small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- (figuratively) Young, as a child.
- (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
- A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- (archaic) Slender, gracefully slim.
Synonyms
- (not large or big): little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also Thesaurus:tiny
- (young, as a child): little, wee (Scottish), young
- (of written letters): lowercase, minuscule
Antonyms
- See also Thesaurus:large
- (not large or big): capital, big, generous (said of an amount of something given), large
- (young, as a child): adult, grown-up, old
- (of written letters): big, capital, majuscule, uppercase
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)
- In a small fashion. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- In or into small pieces.
- 2009, Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)
- That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.
- 2009, Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)
- (obsolete) To a small extent.
- (obsolete) In a low tone; softly.
Derived terms
- writ small
Noun
small (plural smalls)
- (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
Derived terms
- small of the back
Verb
small (third-person singular simple present smalls, present participle smalling, simple past and past participle smalled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
- (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
- 1917, Thomas Hardy, The Clock of the Years
- And smalled till she was nought at all.
- 1917, Thomas Hardy, The Clock of the Years
Anagrams
- malls
Icelandic
Verb
small (strong)
- first-person singular past indicative of smella
- third-person singular past indicative of smella
Low German
Etymology
From Middle Low German smal, from Old Saxon smal, from Proto-Germanic *smalaz. Cognate with German schmal, Dutch smal, English small.
Adjective
small (comparative smaller, superlative smallst)
- narrow
- small, slender
Declension
Middle English
Adjective
small
- Alternative form of smal
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
small
- (non-standard since 2005) past tense of smelle
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
small
- past tense of smella
Swedish
Verb
small
- past tense of smälla.
Anagrams
- malls
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