different between perfume vs stench

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French parfum. Doublet of parfum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??fju?m/
• (US) pûr'fyo?om", IPA^(key): /?p?fju?m/ or enPR: p?r-fyoo?m', IPA^(key): /p??fju?m/
• (General American):

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?p?fju?m/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /p??fju?m/

Noun

perfume (countable and uncountable, plural perfumes)

1. A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.

Synonyms

• (pleasant smell): aroma, fragrance, scent
• (substance providing a pleasant smell): fragrance, scent

Derived terms

• acoustic perfume
• perfumelike
• perfumey

Translations

Verb

perfume (third-person singular simple present perfumes, present participle perfuming, simple past and past participle perfumed)

1. (transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

Translations

Related terms

• perfumed
• perfumery

References

• perfume in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Occitan perfum.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: per?fu?me

Noun

perfume m (plural perfumes)

1. perfume (substance providing a pleasant smell)

Verb

perfume

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of perfumar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of perfumar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of perfumar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of perfumar

References

Spanish

Etymology

Nominal of perfumar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe??fume/, [pe??fu.me]

Noun

perfume m (plural perfumes)

1. perfume

   Synonyms: olor, aroma, fragancia

Related terms

• perfumar
• perfumería
• perfumero
• perfumista

Verb

perfume

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of perfumar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of perfumar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of perfumar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of perfumar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English stench, from Old English sten? (“stench, odor, fragrance”), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz (“smell, fragrance, odor”), from Proto-Indo-European *steng?- (“to push, thrust”). Cognate with Dutch stank (“stench, odor”), German Stank, Gestank (“stench, odor, smell”), Danish stank (“stench”), Swedish stank (“stench”), Icelandic stækja (“stench”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

stench (plural stenches)

1. a strong foul smell; a stink.
2. (figuratively) A foul quality.

3. (obsolete) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.

Synonyms

• (disagreeable smell): stink, pong (Commonwealth)

Antonyms

• (disagreeable smell): aroma, fragrance, perfume

Derived terms

• stenchy

Translations

Verb

stench (third-person singular simple present stenches, present participle stenching, simple past and past participle stenched)

1. (obsolete) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
   • 1729, Edmund Young, Imperium Pelagi

     Dead bards stench every coast

2. To stanch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Harvey to this entry?)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• stunch, stinnch, stenche, stynche, stinche, stænc

Etymology

From Old English sten?, from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz. Conflated with Old English styn?, from Proto-Germanic *stunkwiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?nt?/, /stint?/, /stunt?/

Noun

stench (plural stenches)

1. A stench; a displeasing or repulsive smell.
2. Something which causes or has such a repulsive smell.
3. The smell of the fires of hell (thought to be of sulphur)
4. The smell or odour of sinfulness or iniquity.
5. (rare, Early Middle English) A smell or scent (good or bad).

Derived terms

• stenchen

Descendants

• English: stench
• Scots: stench, stinch

References

• “stench, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-24.