different between ordure vs odor

English

Etymology

From Middle English ordure, ordure, borrowed from Middle French ordure and Anglo-Norman ordure, ordeur(e), ordor(e), ordour from Old French ordure (“dirt, filth, refuse; dung, excrement; moral filth”) (modern French ordure), from ord (“filthy”) + -ure (suffix forming nouns describing the results of actions). Ord is derived from Latin horridus (“dreadful, frightful, horrid”), from horre? (“to stand erect, stand on end; to shiver, tremble; to be afraid of, dread; to be frightful”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *??ers- (“stiff; surprised”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???dj(?)?/, /-d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d???/
• Hyphenation: or?dure

Noun

ordure (countable and uncountable, plural ordures)

1. Dung, excrement.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:feces
2. (by extension) Dirt, filth.
3. (by extension) Something regarded as contaminating or perverting the morals; obscene material.

Derived terms

• ordurous

Translations

References

Further reading

• human waste on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dourer

French

Etymology

From Old French ord (“filthy”), from Latin horridus (“horrid”), + -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.dy?/

Noun

ordure f (plural ordures)

1. garbage, refuse
2. dung, animal faeces
3. (slang) obscenity, filthy material
4. (slang, derogatory) a filthy person

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• doreur, dorure, rôdeur

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ordoure, ordre, ordur (all rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ordure and Anglo-Norman ordure, ordeur(e), ordor(e), ordour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?diu?r(?)/

Noun

ordure (plural ordures)

1. ordure, excrement
2. (by extension) filth, rubbish
3. (figuratively) moral filth, iniquity

Descendants

• English: ordure

References

• “ord?r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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