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See also: Humor, humör, and humør

English

Pronunciation

Noun

humor (usually uncountable, plural humors)

  1. 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

humor (third-person singular simple present humors, present participle humoring, simple past and past participle humored)

  1. 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

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.

Noun

humor m (plural humores)

  1. mood (mental state)
  2. humour

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hūmōrem.

Pronunciation

Noun

humor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural humors)

  1. humour

Derived terms

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

humor m inan

  1. humor (US), humour (UK) (source of amusement)

Declension

Declension of humor (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative humor humory
genitive humoru humorů
dative humoru humorům
accusative humor humory
vocative humore humory
locative humoru humorech
instrumental humorem humory

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “humor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “humor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /huːmɔr/, [ˈhuːmɐ]

Noun

humor c (singular definite humoren, not used in plural form)

  1. humour (amusement and the sense of amusement)

Declension

Declension of humor
common
gender 		Singular
indefinite definite
nominative humor humoren
genitive humors humorens

Dutch

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈɦymɔr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: hu‧mor

Noun

humor m (plural humoren or humores)

  1. (uncountable) humour (sense of amusement)
  2. (countable, archaic) humour (bodily fluid) [from the 15th c.]

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hūmor.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhumor]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: hu‧mor
  • Rhymes: -or

Noun

humor (plural humorok)

  1. humour, humor (the quality of being amusing, comical, or funny)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
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
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

Compound words

References

  1. ^ 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

  • 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

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

hūmor m (genitive hūmōris); third declension

  1. liquid, fluid, humour
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative hūmor hūmōrēs
genitive hūmōris hūmōrum
dative hūmōrī hūmōribus
accusative hūmōrem hūmōrēs
ablative hūmōre hūmōribus
vocative hūmor hūmōrēs
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

humor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of humō

References

  • “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

Noun

humor

  1. Alternative form of humour

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.

Noun

humor m (definite singular humoren)

  1. humour (UK) or humor (US)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.

Noun

humor m (definite singular humoren)

  1. humor (US) or humour (UK)

Derived terms

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.

Noun

humor m or f

  1. humor (one of four fluids that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body)

Descendants

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hūmor.

Pronunciation

Noun

humor m inan (diminutive humorek, related adjective humorny)

  1. (uncountable) humour (ability to see what the funny side of things and make others laugh)
  2. (uncountable) humour (quality of being amusing, comical, funny)
  3. (uncountable) humour (collection of texts or fragments of texts that entertain or make people laugh)
  4. (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
    1. (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)
  5. (in the plural) humours (mental state that occurs abruptly and without a cause, manifested by mood variation, dissatisfaction, or anger)
  6. (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

Declension of humor
singular plural
nominative humor humory
genitive humoru humorów
dative humorowi humorom
accusative humor humory
instrumental humorem humorami
locative humorze humorach
vocative humorze humory

Derived terms

adjectives
nouns
adjectives
adverbs
nouns

Further reading

  • 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

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese umor, humor, borrowed from Latin hūmōrem (“humour, fluid”).

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: hu‧mor

Noun

humor m (plural humores)

  1. mood (mental state)
    Synonyms: disposição, espírito, temperamento
  2. humour; bodily fluid
  3. (historical) humour (one of the four basic bodily fluids in humourism)
    Hyponyms: bile amarela, bile negra, fleuma, sangue
  4. humour (quality of being comical)
    Synonyms: comédia, comicidade, graça

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:humor.

Derived terms

mood
bodily fluid
quality of being comical

Romanian

Noun

humor n (plural humoare)

  1. Alternative form of umor

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative humor humorul humoare humoarele
genitive-dative humor humorului humoare humoarelor
vocative humorule humoarelor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English humor, from Latin hūmor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xǔmor/
  • Hyphenation: hu‧mor

Noun

hùmor m (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)

  1. (uncountable) humor

Declension

Declension of humor
singular
nominative humor
genitive humora
dative humoru
accusative humor
vocative humore
locative humoru
instrumental humorom

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hūmōrem. Cognate with English humor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uˈmoɾ/ [uˈmoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: hu‧mor

Noun

humor m (plural humores)

  1. mood
    estar de buen humor ― to be in a good mood
  2. humor
    un sentido del humor ― a sense of humor

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Etymology

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

Noun

humor c

  1. humor
    ha sinne för humor
    have a sense of humor

Declension

Declension of humor
nominative genitive
singular indefinite humor humors
definite humorn humorns
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

References

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