different between stench vs effluvium

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.

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