livor

English

Etymology

From Latin līvor.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪvɔː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪvɔəɹ/, /ˈlaɪvɔɹ/, /ˈlaɪvəɹ/
  • Hyphenation: li‧vor

Noun

livor (countable and uncountable, plural livors)

  1. (pathology) Skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
  2. (obsolete) Malice.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.66:
      To see a man [] magnify his friend unworthy with hyperbolical elogiums; his enemy, albeit a good man, to vilify and disgrace him, yea, all his actions, with the utmost livor and malice can invent.

Latin

Etymology

From līveō (I am bluish; I envy) + -or (noun forming suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

līvor m (genitive līvōris); third declension

  1. A bruise.
  2. A bluish color.
  3. (figuratively) envy, malice

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative līvor līvōrēs
Genitive līvōris līvōrum
Dative līvōrī līvōribus
Accusative līvōrem līvōrēs
Ablative līvōre līvōribus
Vocative līvor līvōrēs

Descendants

References

  • livor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • livor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • livor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • livor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • lívor” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995) Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 152/1

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin līvor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liˈboɾ/, [liˈβoɾ]

Noun

livor m (plural livores)

  1. a bluish color
  2. malice, malignity
  3. (archaic, literary) bruise

Synonyms

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