Etymology

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Today it means: evil-smelling; fetid. Full definition →

Latin olidus ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ← Proto-Italic *odō
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₃édeti
  3. Proto-Italic*odō
  4. Latinolō
  5. Latinoleō
  6. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  7. Latinolidus
  8. English todayolid

Borrowed from Latin olidus from olēre (“to smell”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.