humor
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hjuː.mə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhjuːmɚ/, /ˈjuːmɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: hu‧mor
- Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Noun edit
humor (usually uncountable, plural humors)
- US spelling of humour
- He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.
- 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana, PG, page 40:
- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
- 1987, Gerald Ford, “What's So Funny About the Presidency?”, in Humor and the Presidency[1], New York: Arbor House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
- There are two ways to become an authority on humor. The first way is to be one of the perpetrators. You know them: comedians, satirists, cartoonists, and impersonators. The second way to gain such credentials is to be the victim of their merciless talents. As such a victim, I take a backseat to no one as far as humor is concerned.
Verb edit
humor (third-person singular simple present humors, present participle humoring, simple past and past participle humored)
- US spelling of humour
- I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
Further reading edit
- Humour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Humorism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “humor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “humor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “humor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.
Noun edit
humor m (plural humores)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
humor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural humors)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
humor m inan
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin (h)ūmor (“fluid”). Doublet of humør (“spirits, mood”). The modern use of this word for mental processes goes back to Ancient and Medieval theories about the four fluids of the body.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
humor c (singular definite humoren, not used in plural form)
- humour (amusement and the sense of amusement)
Declension edit
common gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | humor | humoren |
genitive | humors | humorens |
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin hūmor. Doublet of humeur (“mood, mental state”).
The meaning of humor as in "a sense of amusement" entered Dutch from the US spelling of humour around ~1839.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
humor m (plural humoren or humores)
- (uncountable) humour (sense of amusement)
- (countable, archaic) humour (bodily fluid) [from the 15th c.]
Related terms edit
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
humor (plural humorok)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | humor | humorok |
accusative | humort | humorokat |
dative | humornak | humoroknak |
instrumental | humorral | humorokkal |
causal-final | humorért | humorokért |
translative | humorrá | humorokká |
terminative | humorig | humorokig |
essive-formal | humorként | humorokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | humorban | humorokban |
superessive | humoron | humorokon |
adessive | humornál | humoroknál |
illative | humorba | humorokba |
sublative | humorra | humorokra |
allative | humorhoz | humorokhoz |
elative | humorból | humorokból |
delative | humorról | humorokról |
ablative | humortól | humoroktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
humoré | humoroké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
humoréi | humorokéi |
Possessive forms of humor | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | humorom | humoraim |
2nd person sing. | humorod | humoraid |
3rd person sing. | humora | humorai |
1st person plural | humorunk | humoraink |
2nd person plural | humorotok | humoraitok |
3rd person plural | humoruk | humoraik |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading edit
- humor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
Alternative spelling of ūmor found in the later Roman Empire, when the letter h had already become silent. See also the related hūmidus.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈhuː.mor/, [ˈhuːmɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈu.mor/, [ˈuːmor]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈuː.mor/, [ˈuːmɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈu.mor/, [ˈuːmor]
Noun edit
hūmor m (genitive hūmōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | hūmor | hūmōrēs |
Genitive | hūmōris | hūmōrum |
Dative | hūmōrī | hūmōribus |
Accusative | hūmōrem | hūmōrēs |
Ablative | hūmōre | hūmōribus |
Vocative | hūmor | hūmōrēs |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Asturian: humor
- → Catalan: humor
- → Czech: humor
- → Danish: humor
- → Esperanto: humuro (via descendants)
- → German: Humor
- ⇒ Hebrew: הומור
- → Hungarian: humor
- → Ido: humuro (via descendants)
- Italian: umore
- Ladino: umor
- → Macedonian: хумор (humor)
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: humor, umor
- Portuguese: humor
- → Old French: humor, humour
- French: humeur
- → Middle Dutch: humuere
- → Middle English: humour, humore, umour, humor, humur, humer
- English: humour, humor
- →⇒ Chinese:
- → Danish: humor
- → Icelandic: húmor
- → Dutch: humor
- → Esperanto: humuro
- → French: humour
- → German: Humor (semantic loan)
- → Greek: χιούμορ (chioúmor)
- → Italian: humour
- → Japanese: ユーモア (yūmoa)
- → Korean: 유머 (yumeo)
- → Norwegian: (also via German)
- → Russian: ю́мор (júmor)
- → Azerbaijani: yumor
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Swedish: humor (semantic loan)
- Scots: humour
- English: humour, humor
- → Spanish: humor
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈhu.mor/, [ˈhʊmɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈu.mor/, [ˈuːmor]
Verb edit
humor
References edit
- “humor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “humor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle English edit
Noun edit
humor
- Alternative form of humour
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.
Noun edit
humor m (definite singular humoren)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “humor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.
Noun edit
humor m (definite singular humoren)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “humor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
- humour (less common)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.
Noun edit
humor m or f
- humor (one of four fluids that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body)
Descendants edit
- French: humeur
- → Middle Dutch: humuere
- → Middle English: humour, humore, umour, humor, humur, humer
- English: humour, humor
- →⇒ Chinese:
- → Danish: humor
- → Icelandic: húmor
- → Dutch: humor
- → Esperanto: humuro
- → French: humour
- → German: Humor (semantic loan)
- → Greek: χιούμορ (chioúmor)
- → Italian: humour
- → Japanese: ユーモア (yūmoa)
- → Korean: 유머 (yumeo)
- → Norwegian: (also via German)
- → Russian: ю́мор (júmor)
- → Azerbaijani: yumor
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Swedish: humor (semantic loan)
- Scots: humour
- English: humour, humor
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Humor, ultimately from Latin hūmor. See humor for more.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
humor m inan
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese umor, humor, borrowed from Latin hūmōrem (“humour, fluid”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
humor m (plural humores)
- mood (mental state)
- Synonyms: disposição, espírito, temperamento
- humour; bodily fluid
- (historical) humour (one of the four basic bodily fluids in humourism)
- Hyponyms: bile amarela, bile negra, fleuma, sangue
- humour (quality of being comical)
- Synonyms: comédia, comicidade, graça
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:humor.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Romanian edit
Noun edit
humor n (plural humoare)
- Alternative form of umor
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) humor | humorul | (niște) humoare | humoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) humor | humorului | (unor) humoare | humoarelor |
vocative | humorule | humoarelor |
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English humor, from Latin hūmor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hùmor m (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin hūmōrem. Cognate with English humor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
humor m (plural humores)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “humor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Originally from Latin hūmor (“fluid”), having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör (“mood, temper”). The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Noun edit
humor c
- humour (a sense of making jokes)
Declension edit
Declension of humor | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | humor | humorn | — | — |
Genitive | humors | humorns | — | — |
Related terms edit
References edit
- humor, humör in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- humor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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