Translation
smell, scent, odour
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Word origin
From Latin odor ('smell'), the root that also gives French odeur and English odour.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- odor
- English cognates
- odour, odorous
Examples
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The scent of the flowers filled the room.
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I can smell a strange odour in the house.
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Fresh bread has a wonderful smell.
English "odour" has soured over the centuries into something you complain about; stayed neutral, so a rose and a drain both have one. The verb is , to give off a smell: bone . To smell something with your nose is , a separate verb, which spares Esperanto the English ambiguity of "the dog smells". A pleasant smell can be bonodoro and a stink malbonodoro or the stronger , so the judgement lives in the affixes, not the root.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 12: odoro, maŝino, murdi and 7 more words.