odorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• odour (British spelling)

語源

From 中期英語 odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈəʊdə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈoʊdəɹ/
• Homophone: oater (some dialects)
• 韻: -əʊdə(ɹ)

名詞

odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors) (American spelling)

1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.

   Synonyms: scent, perfume; see also Thesaurus:smell

   • 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:

     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.
   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 287:

     In different parts of the coast different species of animals are accounted sacred, because they are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead. Hence monkeys near Fishtown, snakes at Whydah, and crocodiles near Dix Cove live in the odour of sanctity."

3. (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem.

   Synonyms: esteem, repute

4. (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xxiiij:[1], folio cxvii, recto:

     On the morowe after the ſaboth / erly in the mornynge / they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odourſ whych they had prepared / and other wemen wyth them.

使用する際の注意点

• The term odo(u)r often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are fragrance, scent, and aroma.

派生語

参考

• aroma

アナグラム

• door, oord, ordo, rood, Rood

語源

Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Italic *odōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éd-os, from *h₃ed- (“to smell”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɔ.dɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɔː.d̪or]

名詞

odor m (genitive odōris); third declension

1. A smell, perfume, stench.
2. (figuratively) Inkling, suggestion.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• odōrō
• odōror

派生した語

参照

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “odor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • with incense and perfumes: ture et odoribus incensis
    
  • the perfume exhaled by flowers: odores, qui efflantur e floribus
    
  • there are whispers of the appointment of a dictator: non nullus odor est dictaturae (Att. 4. 18)