different between savor vs odor

English

Etymology 1

Noun

savor (plural savors)

1. US standard spelling of savour.
   • 1900, New York (State) Legislature, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 774, syllabus of the department of public instruction:

     Taste gives knowledge of the savors of material things. Touch gives knowledge of form, smoothness, roughness, hardness, softness, pressure, temperature. Hearing gives knowledge of sound and distinguishes noises, musical tones, [...]

Etymology 2

Verb

savor (third-person singular simple present savors, present participle savoring, simple past and past participle savored)

1. US standard spelling of savour.
   • 1915, John Burroughs, The Writings of John Burroughs:

     An explanation of life phenomena that savors of the laboratory and chemism repels me, and an explanation that savors of the theological point of view is equally distasteful to me. I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena ...

Anagrams

• 'sarvo, VAROs, Voras, arvos, sarvo

Ido

Verb

savor

1. future infinitive of savar

Old French

Noun

savor f (oblique plural savors, nominative singular savor, nominative plural savors)

1. Alternative form of savour

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