candor

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English

WOTD – 12 March 2008

Alternative forms

• candour (British and Canadian)

Etymology

From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from candeō (“I shine”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.dɚ/

Noun

candor (usually uncountable, plural candors) (American)

1. (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity. [c. 1500–?]
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "To his Booke":

     Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd,

     Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child ...

2. The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]

   Synonyms: frankness, honesty, sincerity, parrhesia

   Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie

3. Impartiality.

   Synonyms: equity, fairness

Related terms

• candid

Translations

sincere and open in speech, honesty in expression

• Bulgarian: искреност (bg) f (iskrenost), честност (bg) f (čestnost), откровеност (bg) f (otkrovenost)
• Catalan: candor m, f
• Czech: upřímnost f
• Dutch: openheid (nl), openhartigheid (nl), eerlijkheid (nl), oprechtheid (nl), onbevangenheid
• Finnish: vilpittömyys (fi), suoruus (fi)
• French: candeur (fr) f
• German: Aufrichtigkeit (de) f, Freimut (de) m, Redlichkeit (de) f, Ehrlichkeit (de) f, Offenheit (de) f, Freimütigkeit (de) f, Offenherzigkeit f
• Greek: ειλικρίνεια (el) f (eilikríneia), ευθύτητα (el) f (efthýtita)

• Hungarian: nyíltság (hu), őszinteség (hu)
• Persian: خلوص‎‎ (fa) (xolus)
• Polish: szczerość (pl) f, otwartość (pl) f, uczciwość (pl) f
• Portuguese: franqueza (pt) f
• Russian: прямота́ (ru) f (prjamotá), че́стность (ru) f (čéstnostʹ)
• Spanish: candor m
• Turkish: içtenlik (tr)

impartiality

• Bulgarian: безпристрастност f (bezpristrastnost)
• Czech: nestrannost f, bezpředsudkovost f
• Dutch: openheid (nl),onpartijdigheid (nl),
• German: Offenheit (de) f, Unparteilichkeit f, Neutralität (de) f

• Greek: αμεροληψία (el) f (amerolipsía)
• Hungarian: elfogulatlanság (hu)
• Polish: bezstronność (pl) f
• Russian: беспристрастность (ru) f (bespristrastnostʹ)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} terus terang (id), ^{(please verify)} jujur (id), ^{(please verify)} tulus (id), ^{(please verify)} tulus hati

Anagrams

• Cardon, Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, dacron

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin candor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kənˈdo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kanˈdoɾ/

Noun

candor m f (plural candors)

1. candor

Related terms

• càndid

Further reading

• “candor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “candor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “candor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “candor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Latin

Etymology

From candeō (“shine, glitter; glow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.dor/, [ˈkan.dɔr]

Noun

candor m (genitive candōris); third declension

1. a dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness
2. fairness, beauty
3. glow, heat
4. (of speech) splendor, brilliance
5. (of mind or character) frankness, openness, candor, purity

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	candor	candōrēs
genitive	candōris	candōrum
dative	candōrī	candōribus
accusative	candōrem	candōrēs
ablative	candōre	candōribus
vocative	candor	candōrēs

Related terms

• candefaciō
• candēla
• candēlābrārius
• candēlābrum

• candēns
• candentia
• candeō
• candescō

• candicō
• candidus
• candificō

Descendants

• Catalan: candor
• English: candor, candour
• French: candeur
• Italian: candore

• Portuguese: candor
• Romanian: candoare
• Spanish: candor

References

• candor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• candor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• candor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• candor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin candor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanˈdoɾ/, [kãn̪ˈd̪oɾ]

Noun

candor m (plural candores)

1. candor

Related terms

• cándido

Further reading

• “candor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.