Etymology

odor

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Today it means: Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive. Full definition →

Middle English odour ← Anglo-Norman odour ← Old French odor
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromodor
  2. Old French · derived fromodor
  3. Anglo-Norman · derived fromodour
  4. Middle English · inherited fromodour
  5. English todayodor

From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor. Cognates * Swedish odör (“bad smell”)

Words from the same roots

Latinodor all →

odorometer

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