livor
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪvɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪvɔəɹ/, /ˈlaɪvɔɹ/, /ˈlaɪvəɹ/
- Hyphenation: li‧vor
Noun
editlivor (countable and uncountable, plural livors)
- (pathology) Skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
- (obsolete) Malice.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- To see a man [...] magnify his friend unworthy with hyperbolical elogiums; his enemy, albeit a good man, to vilify and disgrace him, yea, all his actions, with the utmost livor and malice can invent.
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editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom līveō (“I am bluish; I envy”) + -or (noun forming suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈliː.u̯or/, [ˈlʲiːu̯ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.vor/, [ˈliːvor]
Noun
editlīvor m (genitive līvōris); third declension
- a bruise
- a bluish color
- (figuratively) envy, jealousy
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.85–86:
- Quō nōn līvor adit? sunt quī tibi mēnsis honōrem
ēripuisse velint invideantque, Venus.- Wherefore will envy not assail? There are those who would rob you of the honor of the month, and who wish to begrudge you, Venus.
(Perhaps wishing to regain the favor of his former patron, Caesar Augustus, Ovid writes with twofold purpose in Book IV: Honor the traditional springtime worship of Venus, and defend an ancestry to her claimed by Julius Caesar, adoptive father of Augustus. See Venus (mythology).)
- Wherefore will envy not assail? There are those who would rob you of the honor of the month, and who wish to begrudge you, Venus.
- Quō nōn līvor adit? sunt quī tibi mēnsis honōrem
- (figuratively) spite, malice, ill-will
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | līvor | līvōrēs |
Genitive | līvōris | līvōrum |
Dative | līvōrī | līvōribus |
Accusative | līvōrem | līvōrēs |
Ablative | līvōre | līvōribus |
Vocative | līvor | līvōrēs |
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editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “livor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “livor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- livor 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)
- livor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lívor” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 152/1
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlivor m (plural livores)
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editFurther reading
edit- “livor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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