candor

• candour (British, Canada)

From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from candeō (“I shine”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.dɚ/, [ˈkɛən.dɚ]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/, [ˈkɛːn.də(ɹ)]

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛn.də(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

candor (usually uncountable, plural candors) (American spelling)

1. The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]

   Synonyms: frankness, honesty, sincerity, parrhesia

   Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie

2. Impartiality.

   Synonyms: equity, fairness

3. (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity. [c. 1500–?]
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "To his Booke":

     Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd,
     Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child […]

• The second sense can be used as the abstract noun equivalent of candid, i.e. “the state of being candid”.

• candid
• candle

• Cardon, Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, cardon, dacron

Borrowed from Latin candōrem. First attested in 1839.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kənˈdo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kanˈdoɾ]

candor m or f (plural candors)

1. candor

• càndid

• “candor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “candor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “candor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “candor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From candeō (“to shine, glitter; glow”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.dɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkan̪.d̪or]

candor m (genitive candōris); third declension

1. a dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness
2. fairness, beauty
3. glow, heat
4. (of speech) splendor, brilliance
5. (of mind or character) frankness, openness, candor, purity

Third-declension noun.

• “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "candor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• candor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin candor.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈdoɾ/ [kãn̪ˈd̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: can‧dor

candor m (plural candores)

1. candor

• “candor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024