Etymology

humorous

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Today it means: Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny. Full definition →

Middle English humorous
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromhumorous
  2. English todayhumorous

From Middle English humorous (compare Medieval Latin hūmorōsus), equivalent to humor + -ous.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.