languor

• languour

From the Middle English langour, langor, borrowed from Old French langueur, from Latin languor (“faintness, languor”), from languere (“to feel faint, languish”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæŋɡəɹ/
• Rhymes: -æŋɡə(ɹ)

languor (countable and uncountable, plural languors)

1. (uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude

   languor of convalescence

2. (countable) listless indolence; dreaminess

   a certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer -- James Purdy

3. (uncountable) dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnation

   from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity -- Elinor Wylie

4. (obsolete, countable) An enfeebling disease; suffering

• languid
• languish
• languorous

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

From langueō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlan.ɡʷor/, [ˈɫaŋ.ɡʷɔr]

languor m (genitive languōris); third declension

1. faintness, feebleness, languor, apathy

Third declension.

• languor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• languor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• languor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy: desidiae et languori se dedere
    
  • to weary, bore the reader: languorem, molestiam legentium animis afferre
    

Borrowed from Latin languor.

• IPA^(key): [la̠ŋˈɡuo̞ɾ]

languor m (plural languores)

1. (rare) languor

• lánguido