different between odour vs odorant

English

Alternative forms

• odor (American)

Etymology

From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor. Related to Swedish odör (“bad smell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?d??/

Noun

odour (countable and uncountable, plural odours)

1. Alternative form of odor

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Douro

Middle English

Alternative forms

• odowre, odor, odure, odoure, odyr, oudour, odowr, odir, odur

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Latin odor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???du?r/, /??du?r/, /???dur/, /???d?r/

Noun

odour (plural odours)

1. A smell or scent; a nasal sensation (often intrinsic):
   1. A pleasant or appealing smell or scent.
   2. The scent of living matter or substances.
2. (figuratively) A sensation or quality; the feeling produced by something.
3. (rare) The power of discerning scents.

Descendants

• English: odour, odor
• Scots: odour

References

• “??d?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-01.

English

Etymology

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Alternative forms

• odourant

Noun

odorant (plural odorants)

1. Any substance that has a distinctive smell, especially one added to something (such as household gas) for safety purposes

Translations

Adjective

odorant

1. Having an odour/odor.

Derived terms

• deodorant
• reodorant

Anagrams

• donator, tandoor, tornado

French

Etymology

From Latin odorantem

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.d?.???/

Adjective

odorant (feminine singular odorante, masculine plural odorants, feminine plural odorantes)

1. scented, aromatic

Derived terms

• acore odorant

Further reading

• “odorant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

od?rant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of od?r?

Romanian

Etymology

From French odorant.

Adjective

odorant m or n (feminine singular odorant?, masculine plural odoran?i, feminine and neuter plural odorante)

1. odorous, odoriferous

Declension