humor

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːmɚ/, /ˈjuːmɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hjuː.mə(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: hu‧mor
• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

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humor (usually uncountable, plural humors)

1. American spelling 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.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     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.

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

1. American spelling spelling of humour

   I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

• Wikipedia article on humor
• Wikipedia article on humors
• humor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• humor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• humor at OneLook Dictionary Search

• mohur

Borrowed from Latin humor, humorem.

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood (mental state)
2. humour

Borrowed from Latin humor, humorem.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /uˈmo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /uˈmoɾ/

humor m (plural humors)

1. humour

• humorós

• humit

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humor m

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

• humorný m
• humorista m
• smysl pro humor m

• humor in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• humor in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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

1. humour (amusement)

Borrowed from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin humor. See also: humore, humeur, humoor, humoristisch, and humuer.

The meaning of humor as in "a sense of amusement" entered Dutch from the US spelling of humour around ~1839.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦymɔr/

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mor

humor m (plural humoren or humores)

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

Borrowed from Latin humor.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈhumor]

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mor

humor (plural humorok)

1. humour, humor

• humoros

(Compound words):

• akasztófahumor
• humorérzék

• ūmor

Alternative spelling of ūmor found in the later Roman Empire, when the letter h had already become silent. See also the related hūmidus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhuː.mor/, [ˈhuː.mɔr]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.mor/, [ˈuː.mɔr]

hūmor m (genitive hūmōris); third declension

1. liquid, fluid, humour

Third declension.

• exhūmōrō
• hūmōrōsus

humor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of humō

• 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

humor

1. Alternative form of humour

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

humor m (definite singular humoren)

1. humour (UK) or humor (US)

• galgenhumor

• “humor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

humor m (definite singular humoren)

1. humor (US) or humour (UK)

• galgenhumor

• “humor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• humour (less common)

Borrowed from Latin humor, humorem.

humor m or f

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

Borrowed from German Humor, ultimately from Latin humor. See humor for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxu.mɔr/

humor m inan

1. humour
2. mood (mental state)

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

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /u.ˈmoɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.ˈmoɻ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ˈmoɾ/

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood (mental state)
2. humour; bodily fluid
3. (historical) humour (one of the four basic bodily fluids in humourism)
4. humour (quality of being comical)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:humor.

• (mood): espírito, disposição, temperamento
• (quality of being comical): comicidade, graça, comédia

• (basic bodily fluids): fleuma, bile amarela, bile negra, sangue

• (mood):
• bom humor
• mau humor
• (bodily fluid):
• humor vítreo
• (quality of being comical):
• humor negro

Borrowed from English humor, from Latin humor.

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

hùmor m (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)

1. (uncountable) humor

Borrowed from Latin humor, humorem.

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood
2. humor

• humoroso
• humorismo
• humorístico
• humorista

• humo
• húmedo

Originally from Latin humor (“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.

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humor c

1. humour (a sense of making jokes)

• galghumor
• humoresk
• humorfri
• humorist
• humoristisk

• humor, humör in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• humor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.