fetor

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin fētor.

Pronunciation

Noun

fetor (countable and uncountable, plural fetors)

  1. An unpleasant smell.
    • 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 39:
      Heʼd thrown rancid meat in a fire to fill the woods with the ripe fetor of death.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Portuguese feitor, from Latin factor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfe.t̪ɔr]
  • Hyphenation: fétor

Noun

fétor (plural fetor-fetor)

  1. (East Nusa Tenggara) village head
  2. (East Nusa Tenggara) chieftain
  3. (East Nusa Tenggara, Atoni) noble
    Synonym: bangsawan
  4. factor, overseer

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fēteō (to stink, smell bad) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

Noun

fētor m (genitive fētōris); third declension

  1. stench, stink, bad smell, fetidness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fētor fētōrēs
genitive fētōris fētōrum
dative fētōrī fētōribus
accusative fētōrem fētōrēs
ablative fētōre fētōribus
vocative fētor fētōrēs

Descendants

  • Asturian: fedor
  • Catalan: fetor
  • English: fetor, foetor
  • Esperanto: fetoro
  • Italian: fetore
  • Old French: feteur
  • Galician: fedor
  • Polish: fetor
  • Portuguese: fedor
  • Sicilian: fetu
  • Spanish: hedor, fetor

Verb

fētor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of fētō

References

  • fetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fetor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Noun

fetor f

  1. alternative form of feter

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fētor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.tɔr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛtɔr
  • Syllabification: fe‧tor

Noun

fetor m inan (diminutive fetorek)

  1. (literary) fetor (unpleasant smell)
    Synonyms: odór, smród, swąd, sztynk
    Antonym: aromat
    Hypernyms: woń, zapach

Declension

Further reading

  • fetor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • fetor in Polish dictionaries at PWN