l'
/y.mœʁ/
Translation
mood, temper (not humour, which is l'humour)
Word origin
From Latin humor ('liquid, moisture'). Medieval medicine held that four bodily fluids, the humours, governed a person's temperament, and the word slid from the fluid to the state of mind it was thought to produce. The separate French humour ('comedy, wit') was later borrowed back from English.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- humor
- English cognates
- humour, humid
Grammar
Examples
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She is in a good mood this morning.
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Do not talk to him now, he is in a bad mood.
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My mood depends a lot on the weather.
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He has been having mood swings for weeks.
' l' aujourd'hui.
I am not in the mood for joking today.
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