humor

Meaning

  1. (masculine,uncountable) humour (sense of amusement)
  2. (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

B2
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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