humor

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hjuː.mə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːmɚ/, /ˈjuːmɚ/

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mor
• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

humor (usually uncountable, plural humors)

1. US spelling of humour

   He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.

   • 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana, PG, page 40:

     For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.

   • 1987, Gerald Ford, “What's So Funny About the Presidency?”, in Humor and the Presidency‎^[1], New York: Arbor House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:

     There are two ways to become an authority on humor. The first way is to be one of the perpetrators. You know them: comedians, satirists, cartoonists, and impersonators. The second way to gain such credentials is to be the victim of their merciless talents. As such a victim, I take a backseat to no one as far as humor is concerned.

humor (third-person singular simple present humors, present participle humoring, simple past and past participle humored)

1. US spelling of humour

   I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

• Humour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Humorism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “humor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “humor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “humor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• mohur

Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood (mental state)
2. humour

Borrowed from Latin hūmōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈmor]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [uˈmo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [uˈmoɾ]

humor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural humors)

1. humour

• humorós

• humit

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦumor]

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humor m inan

1. humor (US), humour (UK) (source of amusement)

• “humor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “humor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin (h)ūmor (“fluid”). Doublet of humør (“spirits, mood”). The modern use of this word for mental processes goes back to Ancient and Medieval theories about the four fluids of the body.

• IPA^(key): /huːmɔr/, [ˈhuːmɐ]

humor c (singular definite humoren, not used in plural form)

1. humour (amusement and the sense of amusement)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦymɔr/

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mor

humor m (plural humoren or humores)

1. (uncountable) humour (sense of amusement)
2. (countable, archaic or historical) humour (bodily fluid) [from the 15th c.]

Borrowed from Latin hūmor.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈhumor]

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mor
• Rhymes: -or

humor (plural humorok)

1. humour, humor (the quality of being amusing, comical, or funny)

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	humor	humorok
accusative	humort	humorokat
dative	humornak	humoroknak
instrumental	humorral	humorokkal
causal-final	humorért	humorokért
translative	humorrá	humorokká
terminative	humorig	humorokig
essive-formal	humorként	humorokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	humorban	humorokban
superessive	humoron	humorokon
adessive	humornál	humoroknál
illative	humorba	humorokba
sublative	humorra	humorokra
allative	humorhoz	humorokhoz
elative	humorból	humorokból
delative	humorról	humorokról
ablative	humortól	humoroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	humoré	humoroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	humoréi	humorokéi

Possessive forms of humor
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	humorom	humoraim
2nd person sing.	humorod	humoraid
3rd person sing.	humora	humorai
1st person plural	humorunk	humoraink
2nd person plural	humorotok	humoraitok
3rd person plural	humoruk	humoraik

• humor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Alternative spelling of ūmor found in the later Roman Empire, when the letter h had already become silent. See also the related hūmidus.

• ūmor

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhuː.mor/, [ˈhuːmɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.mor/, [ˈuːmor]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.mor/, [ˈuːmɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.mor/, [ˈuːmor]

hūmor m (genitive hūmōris); third declension

1. liquid, fluid, humour

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhu.mor/, [ˈhʊmɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.mor/, [ˈuːmor]

humor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of humō

• “humor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “humor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

humor

1. Alternative form of humour

From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.

humor m (definite singular humoren)

1. humour (UK) or humor (US)

• galgenhumor

• “humor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.

humor m (definite singular humoren)

1. humor (US) or humour (UK)

• galgenhumor

• “humor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• humour (less common)

Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.

humor m or f

1. humor (one of four fluids that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body)

• French: humeur
  • → Danish: humør
    • Norwegian Bokmål: humør
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: humør
  • → Romanian: umoare
  • → Swedish: humör
• → Middle Dutch: humuere
  • Dutch: humeur
    • Negerhollands: humeer
    • → Papiamentu: himeur (dated)
• → Middle English: humour, humore, umour, humor, humur, humer
  • English: humour, humor (US)
    • →⇒ Chinese:

      Cantonese: 幽默 (jau¹ mak⁶)

      Mandarin: 幽默 (yōumò)

    • → Danish: humor
      • → Icelandic: húmor
    • → Dutch: humor
    • → Esperanto: humuro
    • → French: humour
      • → Romanian: humor, umor
      • → Turkish: humor
    • → German: Humor (semantic loan)
      • → Polish: humor
      • → Yiddish: הומאָר (humor) (probably)
    • → Greek: χιούμορ (chioúmor)
    • → Italian: humour
    • → Japanese: ユーモア (yūmoa)
    • → Korean: 유머 (yumeo)
    • → Norwegian: (also via German)

      Bokmål: humor

      Nynorsk: humor

    • → Russian: ю́мор (júmor), гу́мор (gúmor)
      • → Azerbaijani: yumor
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: ху̀мор

      Latin script: hùmor

    • → Swedish: humor (semantic loan)
  • Scots: humour

Learned borrowing from Latin hūmor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxu.mɔr/

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• Rhymes: -umɔr
• Syllabification: hu‧mor

humor m inan (diminutive humorek, related adjective humorny)

1. (uncountable) humour (ability to see what the funny side of things and make others laugh)
2. (uncountable) humour (quality of being amusing, comical, funny)
3. (uncountable) humour (collection of texts or fragments of texts that entertain or make people laugh)
4. (uncountable) humour, mood (temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim)

   Synonym: nastrój

   czarny humor ― dark humour

   wisielczy humor ― gallows humour

   poczucie humoru ― sense of humour

   1. (uncountable) good mood (mental state characterized by the dominance of positive feelings as a result of the relationship of a person to the surrounding world)
5. (in the plural) humours (mental state that occurs abruptly and without a cause, manifested by mood variation, dissatisfaction, or anger)
6. (countable, historical, medicine) humour (any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body)

• humor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• humory in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• humor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• humor in PWN's encyclopedia

From Old Galician-Portuguese umor, humor, borrowed from Latin hūmōrem (“humour, fluid”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: hu‧mor

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood (mental state)

   Synonyms: disposição, espírito, temperamento

2. humour; bodily fluid
3. (historical) humour (one of the four basic bodily fluids in humourism)

   Hyponyms: bile amarela, bile negra, fleuma, sangue

4. humour (quality of being comical)

   Synonyms: comédia, comicidade, graça

For quotations using this term, see Citations:humor.

humor n (plural humoare)

1. Alternative form of umor

Borrowed from English humor, from Latin hūmor.

• IPA^(key): /xǔmor/
• Hyphenation: hu‧mor

hùmor m (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)

1. (uncountable) humor

Borrowed from Latin hūmōrem. Cognate with English humor.

• IPA^(key): /uˈmoɾ/ [uˈmoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: hu‧mor

humor m (plural humores)

1. mood

   estar de buen humor ― to be in a good mood

2. humor

   un sentido del humor ― a sense of humor

• “humor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Originally from Latin hūmor (“fluid”), having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör (“mood, temper”). The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.

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humor c

1. humor

   ha sinne för humor

   have a sense of humor

• humor in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• humor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• humor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• humor, humör in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)