candor

• candour (British and Canadian)

From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from candeō (“I shine”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.dɚ/

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candor (usually uncountable, plural candors) (American spelling)

1. (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity. [c. 1500–?]
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "To his Booke":

     Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd,

     Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child ...

2. The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]

   Synonyms: frankness, honesty, sincerity, parrhesia

   Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie

3. Impartiality.

   Synonyms: equity, fairness

• candid

• Cardon, Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, dacron

From Latin candor.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kənˈdo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kanˈdoɾ/

candor m or f (plural candors)

1. candor

• càndid

• “candor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “candor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “candor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “candor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From candeō (“to shine, glitter; glow”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.dor/, [ˈkan.dɔr]

candor m (genitive candōris); third declension

1. a dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness
2. fairness, beauty
3. glow, heat
4. (of speech) splendor, brilliance
5. (of mind or character) frankness, openness, candor, purity

Third declension.

• candor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• candor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• candor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• candor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Latin candor.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈdoɾ/, [kãn̪ˈd̪oɾ]

candor m (plural candores)

1. candor

• cándido

• “candor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.