candor

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EnglishEdit

WOTD – 12 March 2008

Alternative formsEdit

• candour (British and Canadian)

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

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: honesty, sincerity, parrhesia

   Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie

3. Impartiality.

   Synonyms: fairness, impartiality

Related termsEdit

• candid

TranslationsEdit

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
• 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

AnagramsEdit

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

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From candeō (“shine, glitter; glow”).

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

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

InflectionEdit

Third declension.

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

Related termsEdit

• candefaciō
• candēla
• candēlābrārius
• candēlābrum

• candēns
• candentia
• candeō
• candescō

• candicō
• candidus
• candificō

DescendantsEdit

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

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

ReferencesEdit

• 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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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

candor m (plural candores)

1. candor