Translation
stench, foul stink
Word origin
From Latin fetor (also spelt foetor), a stink, from the verb fetere, to stink. The same root gives English fetid.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- fetor
- English cognates
- fetid
Examples
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A terrible stench came from the cellar.
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The stench of the rotting fish stayed in the whole house.
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He covered his nose because of the stench.
There is no -or- suffix in Esperanto, so nothing peels off this word. The
official suffix list runs -ad-, --, -an-, --, --, --,
--, --, --, -end-, -er-, --, --, --, --,
--, --, -in-, --, --, -ism-, --, --, -on-,
--, --, -- and -um-, and -or- is not on it and never was. So
fet- plus -or- is not a reading that was ever available. - is one
root.
It is a whole class, not a one-off. The - ending you keep meeting is
just the Latin ending riding in on the borrowed word: , ,
, , , odoro. Every one of
them is a single root, and a learner who starts stripping -or- will produce
dol-, - and hon-, none of which mean anything. The rule that saves
you is the one from : if a word came in from the international
vocabulary, assume it is one root until a dictionary says otherwise.
The strength fence. Odoro is neutral - a smell,
which might be roses. is not neutral and never was: it is a stink
strong enough to be a problem, the smell of something
putranta. The adjective is fetora and the verb
fetori, to reek. If you want the neutral verb, that is
flari for the nose doing the work and odori for the
thing giving off the smell.
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