humor
Meaning
- (masculine,uncountable) humour (sense of amusement)
- (archaic,countable,masculine) humour (bodily fluid)
Concepts
humour
humor
temper
mood
temperament
normal body fluid
bodily fluid
comedy
caprice
fancy
feeling
megrim
whimsey
whimsy
Frequency
Hyphenated as
hu‧mor
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɦymɔr/
Etymology
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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