ardor
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- ardour (chiefly British and Canadian)
Etymology edit
From Middle English ardour, ardowr, ardure, from Anglo-Norman ardour, from Old French ardur, from Latin ardor, from ardere (“to burn”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːdə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑːɹdɚ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Noun edit
ardor (countable and uncountable, plural ardors) (American spelling)
- Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC, page 120:
- I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished.
- Spirit; enthusiasm; passion.
- Intense heat.
Synonyms edit
- (warmth of feeling): intensity
- (spirit): elan, fire in the belly, passion, zeal
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Translations edit
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion
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spirit
heat
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Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ardor m (plural ardors)
Ladino edit
Etymology edit
From Old Spanish, from Latin ardor.
Noun edit
ardor m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ארדור)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈar.dor/, [ˈärd̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈar.dor/, [ˈärd̪or]
Noun edit
ardor m (genitive ardōris); third declension
- flame, fire, heat
- Synonym: calor
- brightness, brilliancy (of the eyes)
- ardour, eagerness, ardent desire
- Synonyms: cupīdō, vehementia, dēsīderium, appetītus, studium, impetus, amor, appetītiō, libīdō, alacritās
- the object of ardent affection, love, flame
- Synonym: amor
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | ardor | ardōrēs |
Genitive | ardōris | ardōrum |
Dative | ardōrī | ardōribus |
Accusative | ardōrem | ardōrēs |
Ablative | ardōre | ardōribus |
Vocative | ardor | ardōrēs |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “ardor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ardor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ardor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be dried up by the sun's heat: ardore solis torreri
- enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
- to damp, chill enthusiasm: ardorem animi restinguere
- his enthusiasm has abated, cooled down: ardor animi resēdit, consedit
- to be dried up by the sun's heat: ardore solis torreri
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin ārdōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ardor m (plural ardores)
- burning sensation
- Synonym: queimação
- ardor (warmth of feeling)
- spirit; enthusiasm
- Synonym: entusiasmo
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:ardor.
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin ardōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ardor m (plural ardores)
- heat
- ardour, fervor, passion
- burning (feeling)
- una sensación de ardor ― a burning sensation
- eagerness
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Further reading edit
- “ardor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014