scent

Meaning

1. A distinctive smell.
2. A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
3. The sense of smell.
4. A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
5. Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
6. (obsolete) Sense, perception.

smell

👃

sweet smell

good smell

odourise

olfactory property

make fragrant

perceive an odour

catch the smell

ador

redolance

fragrant odour itself

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɛnt/

From c.1400, from Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sentīre, present active infinitive of sentiō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.