different between scent vs effluvium

English

Alternative forms

• sent (obsolete)

Etymology

From c.1400, borrowed from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sent?re, present active infinitive of senti?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

scent (countable and uncountable, plural scents)

1. A distinctive odour or smell.

2. An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.

3. The sense of smell.

4. A perfume.
5. (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
6. (obsolete) Sense, perception.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     A fit false dream, that can delude the sleeper's sent.

Usage notes

• Almost always applied to agreeable odors (fragrances).

Synonyms

Derived terms

• scented
• scentless

Translations

Verb

scent (third-person singular simple present scents, present participle scenting, simple past and past participle scented)

1. (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To have a suspicion of.

3. (transitive) To impart an odour to.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To have a smell.

   • Thunderbolts […] do sent strongly of brimstone.

5. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

Translations

Anagrams

• cents

English

Etymology

From Latin effluvium (“an outlet”), from efflu? (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + flu? (“flow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??flu?vi.?m/
• Rhymes: -u?vi?m
• Hyphenation: ef?flu?vi?um

Noun

effluvium (plural effluvia or effluviums)

1. A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
   • 1906, O. Henry, The Furnished Room

     And he breathed the breath of the house—a dank savour rather than a smell—a cold, musty effluvium as from underground vaults mingled with the reeking exhalations of linoleum and mildewed and rotten woodwork.

2. A condition causing the shedding of hair.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From efflu? (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + flu? (“flow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ef?flu.u?i.um/, [?f?f???u?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ef?flu.vi.um/, [?f?flu?vium]

Noun

effluvium n (genitive effluvi? or effluv?); second declension

1. The act of flowing out; discharge of liquid, outlet, efflux.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (act of flowing out): effluus

Related terms

• efflu?sc?
• efflu?
• effluus

Descendants

References

• effluvium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• effluvium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• effluvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette