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humor

See also: Humor, humör, and humør

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humor (usually uncountable, plural humors)

  1. US spelling of humour.
    He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.
    • 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana, PG, page 40:
      For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
    • 1987, Gerald Ford, “What's So Funny About the Presidency?”, in Humor and the Presidency‎[1], New York: Arbor House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
      There are two ways to become an authority on humor. The first way is to be one of the perpetrators. You know them: comedians, satirists, cartoonists, and impersonators. The second way to gain such credentials is to be the victim of their merciless talents. As such a victim, I take a backseat to no one as far as humor is concerned.

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humor (third-person singular simple present humors, present participle humoring, simple past and past participle humored)

  1. US spelling of humour.
    I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

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Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.

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humor m (plural humores)

  1. mood (mental state)
  2. humour

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    Borrowed from Latin hūmōrem.

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    humor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural humors)

    1. humour

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    Czech

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    humor m inan

    1. humor (US), humour (UK) (source of amusement)

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    Declension of humor (hard masculine inanimate)
    singular plural
    nominative humor humory
    genitive humoru humorů
    dative humoru humorům
    accusative humor humory
    vocative humore humory
    locative humoru humorech
    instrumental humorem humory

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    Danish

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    From Latin (h)ūmor (“fluid”). Doublet of humør (“spirits, mood”). The modern use of this word for mental processes goes back to Ancient and Medieval theories about the four fluids of the body.

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    • IPA(key): /huːmɔr/, [ˈhuːmɐ]

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    humor c (singular definite humoren, not used in plural form)

    1. humour (amusement and the sense of amusement)

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    Declension of humor
    common
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    indefinite definite
    nominative humor humoren
    genitive humors humorens

    Dutch

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    Borrowed from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin hūmor. Doublet of humeur (“mood, mental state”).

    The meaning of humor as in "a sense of amusement" entered Dutch from the US spelling of humour around ~1839.

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    humor m (plural humoren or humores, no diminutive)

    1. (uncountable) humour (sense of amusement)
    2. (countable, archaic or historical) humour (bodily fluid) [from the 15th c.]

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    Hungarian

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    Borrowed from Latin hūmor.[1]

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    • IPA(key): [ˈhumor]
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    • Hyphenation: hu‧mor
    • Rhymes: -or

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    humor (plural humorok)

    1. humour, humor (the quality of being amusing, comical, or funny)

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    Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
    singular plural
    nominative humor humorok
    accusative humort humorokat
    dative humornak humoroknak
    instrumental humorral humorokkal
    causal-final humorért humorokért
    translative humorrá humorokká
    terminative humorig humorokig
    essive-formal humorként humorokként
    essive-modal — —
    inessive humorban humorokban
    superessive humoron humorokon
    adessive humornál humoroknál
    illative humorba humorokba
    sublative humorra humorokra
    allative humorhoz humorokhoz
    elative humorból humorokból
    delative humorról humorokról
    ablative humortól humoroktól
    non-attributive
    possessive – singular     		humoré humoroké
    non-attributive
    possessive – plural     		humoréi humorokéi
    Possessive forms of humor
    possessor single possession multiple possessions
    1st person sing. humorom humoraim
    2nd person sing. humorod humoraid
    3rd person sing. humora humorai
    1st person plural humorunk humoraink
    2nd person plural humorotok humoraitok
    3rd person plural humoruk humoraik

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    1. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

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    • humor in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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    Borrowed from Dutch humor, from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin hūmor.

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    humor (uncountable)

    1. humour, humor
      1. the fluids in an animal body
      2. (anatomy) the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour

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    humor (uncountable)

    1. humour, humor (the quality of being amusing, comical, funny)

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    Latin

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    Etymology 1

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      Alternative spelling of ūmor found in the later Roman Empire, when the letter h had already become silent. See also the related hūmidus.

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      hūmor m (genitive hūmōris); third declension

      1. liquid, fluid, humour
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      Third-declension noun.

      singular plural
      nominative hūmor hūmōrēs
      genitive hūmōris hūmōrum
      dative hūmōrī hūmōribus
      accusative hūmōrem hūmōrēs
      ablative hūmōre hūmōribus
      vocative hūmor hūmōrēs
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      Etymology 2

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        See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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        humor

        1. first-person singular present passive indicative of humō

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        • “humor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
        • “humor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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        humor

        1. alternative form of humour

        Norwegian Bokmål

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        From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.

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        humor m (definite singular humoren)

        1. humour (UK) or humor (US)

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        Norwegian Nynorsk

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        From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.

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        humor m (definite singular humoren)

        1. humor (US) or humour (UK)

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        Old French

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        Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.

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        humor m or f

        1. humor (one of four fluids that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body)

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        Polish

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        Etymology tree
        Latin ūmeō
        Proto-Indo-European *-os
        Proto-Indo-European *-s
        Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
        Proto-Italic *-ōs
        Latin -or
        Latin ūmor
        Latin hūmorlbor.
        Polish humor

          Learned borrowing from Latin hūmor.

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          humor m inan (diminutive humorek, related adjective humorny)

          1. (uncountable) humour (ability to see what the funny side of things and make others laugh)
          2. (uncountable) humour (quality of being amusing, comical, funny)
          3. (uncountable) humour (collection of texts or fragments of texts that entertain or make people laugh)
          4. (uncountable) humour, mood (temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim)
            Synonym: nastrój
            czarny humor ― dark humour
            wisielczy humor ― gallows humour
            poczucie humoru ― sense of humour
            1. (uncountable) good mood (mental state characterized by the dominance of positive feelings as a result of the relationship of a person to the surrounding world)
          5. (in the plural) humours (mental state that occurs abruptly and without a cause, manifested by mood variation, dissatisfaction, or anger)
          6. (countable, historical, medicine) humour (any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body)

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          Declension of humor
          singular plural
          nominative humor humory
          genitive humoru humorów
          dative humorowi humorom
          accusative humor humory
          instrumental humorem humorami
          locative humorze humorach
          vocative humorze humory

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          • “humor”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
          • “humory”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
          • “humor”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish)
          • humor in PWN's encyclopedia

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          Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese umor, humor, a borrowing from Latin hūmōrem (“humour, fluid”).

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          humor m (plural humores)

          1. mood (mental state)
            Synonyms: disposição, espírito, temperamento
            de bom humor ― in a good mood
            de mau humor ― in a bad mood
            • 2006, Eduardo Giffoni Flórido, As grandes personagens da história do cinema brasileiro: 1970-1979‎[5], Fraiha, →ISBN, page 130:
              Nuno Leal Maia é um grande amigo dos amigos. Quem já conviveu ou convive com ele sabe da sua personalidade alegre e descontraída, sem estrelismo, que cativa as pessoas com o seu bom humor constante.
              (please add an English translation of this quotation)
          2. humour; bodily fluid
          3. (historical) humour (one of the four basic bodily fluids in humourism)
            Hyponyms: bile amarela, bile negra, fleuma, sangue
          4. humour (quality of being comical)
            Synonyms: comédia, comicidade, graça

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          mood
          bodily fluid
          quality of being comical
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          humor n (plural humoare)

          1. alternative form of umor

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          singular plural
          indefinite definite indefinite definite
          nominative-accusative humor humorul humoare humoarele
          genitive-dative humor humorului humoare humoarelor
          vocative humorule humoarelor

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          Borrowed from English humor, from Latin hūmor.

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          • IPA(key): /xǔmor/
          • Hyphenation: hu‧mor

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          hùmor m inan (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)

          1. (uncountable) humor

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          Declension of humor
          singular
          nominative humor
          genitive humora
          dative humoru
          accusative humor
          vocative humore
          locative humoru
          instrumental humorom

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          Borrowed from Latin hūmōrem. Cognate with English humor.

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          • IPA(key): /uˈmoɾ/ [uˈmoɾ]
          • Rhymes: -oɾ
          • Syllabification: hu‧mor

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          humor m (plural humores)

          1. mood (a mental or emotional state)
            estar de buen humor ― to be in a good mood
            • 2025 November 2, Gloria López, “La embalsamadora que le da vida a la muerte [The embalmer who brings death to life]”, in El Sol de México‎[6]:
              Escucha música mientras trabaja, rock o reggaetón. La ponen de buen humor.
              She listens to music as she works; rock or reggaeton. They put her in a good mood.
          2. humor
            Synonym: aguadija (fluid)
            un sentido del humor ― a sense of humor

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          Originally from Latin hūmor (“fluid”), having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör (“mood, temper”). The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.

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          humor c

          1. humor
            ha sinne för humor
            have a sense of humor

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          Declension of humor
          nominative genitive
          singular indefinite humor humors
          definite humorn humorns
          plural indefinite — —
          definite — —
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