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+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈniː.dɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈniː.dor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nīdor''' ''m'' (genitive nīdōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ De Vaan tentatively reconstructs [[itc-pro|*knei/īd-os-]] and [[ine-pro|*knei(H)d-os-|t=itch]], assuming that a strong smell was named from a verb “to itch, sting”; on this view it is related to [[grc|κνῖσα|tr=knîsa|t=smell of roasting fat]], [[grc|κνίζω|tr=knízō|t=to scratch]], [[non|hniss|t=cooking smell]] and [[lv|knìest|t=to itch]], but the vowels are hard to reconcile.^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD compares the Greek and Old Norse words.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who calls a slave who is always in the kitchen ''nidor e culina'', “a whiff from the kitchen”, in the ''Mostellaria''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus also has ''nīdōricupius'', “fond of the smell of cooking”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a rich, strong smell from cooking or burning, and loosely any strong smell.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius has a lamp just put out offending the nostrils with its sharp smell, Cicero the fumes and smoke of cookshops, and Livy a foul smell from burnt feathers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil has the smoke of burning galbanum, and Martial and Juvenal the smell of the kitchen.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, “a whiff from the kitchen”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of a lamp just put out.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the fumes of cookshops.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of burnt feathers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A rich, strong smell from cooking or burning, [[m|en|fume|alt=fumes]], steam.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Any strong [[m|en|smell]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nīdōrōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[odor]]

+ * [[fūmus]]

+ * [[culīna]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}