humour

Significado (Inglês)

Conceitos

humorismo

fluido corporal

Humor

Fluidos corporais

estado de ânimo

Freqüência

C1
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈhjuː.mə(ɹ)/
Etimologia (Inglês)

In summary

From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, humour, from Latin hūmor, correctly ūmor (“liquid”), from hūmeō, correctly ūmeō (“to be moist”). The h in these words, which was silent in late Classical Latin, is folk etymological, due to the erroneous association with the word humus (“soil”). The shift in meaning "liquid" > "mood" is attributed to the classical system of physiology, where human behaviour is regulated by four bodily humours (fluids). The sense "mood" gave rise to the verb sense "to give in to someone's mood or whim" and, by narrowing of meaning, the sense "wit".

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