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]- “humor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “humor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
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 | |
---|---|---|
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
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[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 (less common)
- French: humeur
- → Middle Dutch: humuere
- → Middle English: humour, humore, umour, humor, humur, humer
- English: humour, humor (US)
- →⇒ 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), гу́мор (gúmor)
- → Azerbaijani: yumor
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Swedish: humor (semantic loan)
- Scots: humour
- English: humour, humor (US)
- → 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 (US)
- →⇒ 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), гу́мор (gúmor)
- → Azerbaijani: yumor
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Swedish: humor (semantic loan)
- Scots: humour
- English: humour, humor (US)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin hūmor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]humor m inan (diminutive humorek, related adjective humorny)
- (uncountable) humour (ability to see what the funny side of things and make others laugh)
- (uncountable) humour (quality of being amusing, comical, funny)
- (uncountable) humour (collection of texts or fragments of texts that entertain or make people laugh)
- (uncountable) humour, mood (temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim)
- Synonym: nastrój
- czarny humor ― dark humour
- wisielczy humor ― gallows humour
- poczucie humoru ― sense of humour
- (uncountable) good mood (mental state characterized by the dominance of positive feelings as a result of the relationship of a person to the surrounding world)
- (in the plural) humours (mental state that occurs abruptly and without a cause, manifested by mood variation, dissatisfaction, or anger)
- (countable, historical, medicine) humour (any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- humor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- humory in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- humor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- humor in PWN's encyclopedia
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
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[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
- humor
- ha sinne för humor
- have a sense of humor
Declension
[edit]Declension of humor | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | humor | humorn | — | — |
Genitive | humors | humorns | — | — |
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- humor in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- humor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- humor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- humor, humör in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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