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dolor

See also: dolôr

English

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Noun

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dolor (countable and uncountable, plural dolors)

  1. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of dolour

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Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin dolor, dolōrem.

Noun

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dolor m (plural dolores)

  1. pain
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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin dolōrem.

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Noun

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dolor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural dolors)

  1. pain of a continuing nature, especially that of rheumatism
  2. sorrow or grief of a continuing nature

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References

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  • “dolor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chavacano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Spanish dolor (“pain”).

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dolor

  1. pain; ache

Ladino

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Etymology

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From Old Spanish dolor, from Latin dolor, dolōrem.

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dolor f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling דולור)

  1. pain

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *dolōs, from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to hew, to split”, verbal root).[1]

By surface analysis, doleō +‎ -or.

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Noun

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dolor m (genitive dolōris); third declension

  1. pain, ache, hurt
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.419–420:
      “Hunc ego sī potuī tantum spērāre dolōrem, / et perferre, soror, poterō.”
      [Dido speaks to Anna:] “Supposing that I was able to anticipate this much pain, my sister, so too I shall be able to endure it.”
      (In context, Dido's character is feeling a range of emotion: the pain of heartbreak, grief over lost love and losing an imagined future together, and anger toward her faithless lover Aeneas and the gods he said have ordered him to leave Carthage.)
  2. anguish, grief, sorrow
  3. indignation, resentment, anger, fury, vengeance

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dolor dolōrēs
Genitive dolōris dolōrum
Dative dolōrī dolōribus
Accusative dolōrem dolōrēs
Ablative dolōre dolōribus
Vocative dolor dolōrēs
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References

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  • “dolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dolor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • time will assuage his grief: dies dolorem mitigabit
    • to soothe grief: consolari dolorem alicuius
    • to feel pain: dolore affici
    • to be vexed about a thing: dolorem capere (percipere) ex aliqua re
    • to feel acute pain: doloribus premi, angi, ardere, cruciari, distineri et divelli
    • to cause a person pain: dolorem alicui facere, afferre, commovere
    • to cause any one very acute pain: acerbum dolorem alicui inurere
    • the pain is very severe: acer morsus doloris est (Tusc. 2. 22. 53)
    • to find relief in tears: dolorem in lacrimas effundere
    • to give way to grief: dolori indulgere
    • grief has struck deep into his soul: dolor infixus animo haeret (Phil. 2. 26)
    • to be wasted with grief; to die of grief: dolore confici, tabescere
    • the pain grows less: dolores remittunt, relaxant
    • to struggle against grief: dolori resistere
    • to render insensible to pain: callum obducere dolori (Tusc. 2. 15. 36)
    • I have become callous to all pain: animus meus ad dolorem obduruit (Fam. 2. 16. 1)
    • to banish grief: dolorem abicere, deponere, depellere
    • to free a person from his pain: dolorem alicui eripere (Att. 9. 6. 4)
    • to my sorrow: cum magno meo dolore
  • dolor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  1. ^ Meier-Brugger, Indo-European Linguistics

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan dolor, from Latin dolor, dolōrem (“pain, sorrow”).

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Noun

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dolor m or f (plural dolors)

  1. pain
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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin dolor, dolōrem.

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dolor oblique singular, m (oblique plural dolors, nominative singular dolors, nominative plural dolor)

  1. pain; suffering
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Old Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin dolor, dolōrem.

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dolor m or f

  1. pain
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dolor.

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dolor m (uncountable)

  1. pain, ache

Declension

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declension of dolor (singular only)
singular
m gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) dolor dolorul
genitive/dative (unui) dolor dolorului
vocative dolorule

References

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  • dolor in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish dolor, from Latin dolōrem (“pain; grief”), from Proto-Italic *dolōs, from Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁ōs, derived from the root *delh₁- (“to split, divide”).

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Noun

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dolor m (plural dolores)

  1. pain, ache, aching soreness, tenderness (physical)
    dolores de crecimiento ― growing pains
    dolor de espalda ― backache
  2. grief
  3. sorrow, hurt, pain, suffering (emotional, mental)
  4. sore (in certain expressions)
    dolor de garganta ― sore throat
  5. heartache

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