odeur French · revision 17240

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1112, Voyage de saint Brendan (udur)|origins=la odor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɔ.dœʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''odeur''' ''f'' (plural odeurs)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Udur'' (about 1112), ''odur'' (about 1121), ''odor'' (about 1130), ''odeur'' from about 1380.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|odor|t=smell, scent (good or bad)]], according to the TLFi and Rey, Wiktionary has it inherited through Old French “odor”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|7, 325a) The Latin word, also found as [[m|la|olor]] (compare [[olfactif]]), contains an Indo-European root “*od-” “to smell” also seen in [[grc|ὄζω|tr=ózō|t=to smell]], whence [[ozone]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) Littré notes that 16th-century Latinists tried to make “odeur” masculine, as Brunetto Latini had done in the 13th century.^(Littré 1873)

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+ Compare [[it|odore]] and [[pt|odor]].^(Littré 1873)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the ''Voyage de saint Brendan'' (about 1112) ''udur'' means a perfume, a pleasant scent, Philippe de Thaon (1121–35) uses ''odur'' for the sensation smells produce.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The sense “perfume” is now dated or literary (''des odeurs''), though in Canada a toilet soap is a ''savon d'odeur''.^(DHLF 1992) From the late 12th century it was used figuratively for the impression a person makes on others, whence ''en mauvaise odeur'' (1585) and ''en bonne odeur'' (1611), both obsolete.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) ''En odeur de sainteté'' (after 1650) alludes to the sweet smell said to come from the bodies of saints after death, ''mourir en odeur de sainteté'' dates from 1672, and the familiar ''ne pas être en odeur de sainteté'' “to be in bad odour” from 1835.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1112 – ''Udur'' “perfume”, ''Voyage de saint Brendan''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1121–35 – ''Odur'' “smell”, Philippe de Thaon.^(TLFi)

+ * Late 12th century – Figurative “odour” of a person.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1380 – The form ''odeur''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1672 – ''Mourir en odeur de sainteté''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1835 – ''Ne pas être en odeur de sainteté''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|smell]], odour: ''une odeur de brûlé'', ''une bonne, une mauvaise odeur''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(literary, dated)'' A [[m|en|perfume]], scent: ''des odeurs''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''Mourir en odeur de sainteté'': to die in the odour of sanctity, ''ne pas être en odeur de sainteté auprès de'', to be in someone's bad books.^(Larousse)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[odorant]]

+ * [[odorat]]

+ * [[odoriférant]]

+ * [[inodore]]

+ * [[malodorant]]

+ * [[subodorer]]

+ * [[olfactif]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}