humour

== English == === Alternative forms === humor (US) === Etymology === 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". === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhjuː.mə(ɹ)/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhjuːmɚ/, /ˈjuːmɚ/ Hyphenation: hu‧mour Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ) === Noun === humour (usually uncountable, plural humours) (British spelling) (chiefly uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.] Synonyms: amusingness, comedy, comicality, wit (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. Synonym: mood (archaic or historical) 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. Synonym: bodily fluid 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) page 42: For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger. (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour. (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture. ==== Synonyms ==== (something funny): comedy, wit, witticism ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === humour (third-person singular simple present humours, present participle humouring, simple past and past participle humoured) (transitive) To pacify by indulging. ==== Translations ==== === See also === humour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === References === == French == === Etymology === From English humour, itself from Old French humor, humour. Doublet of humeur. === Pronunciation === (mute h) IPA(key): /y.muʁ/ Rhymes: -uʁ === Noun === humour m (plural humours) humor; comic effect in a communication or performance ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Romanian: humor, umor → Turkish: humor === Further reading === “humour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Italian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English humour. Doublet of umore. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈju.mor/ Rhymes: -umor === Noun === humour m (invariable) sense of humour/humor === References === === Further reading === humour in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana == Middle English == === Alternative forms === humore, umour, humor, humur, humer === Etymology === From Old French humor, from Latin hūmor, ūmor. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /iu̯ˈmuːr/, /ˈiu̯mur/ === Noun === humour (plural humours) A "cardinal humour" (four liquids believed to affect health and mood) A bodily liquid or substance that causes disease or affliction. A bodily liquid or substance that is caused by disease. One of the two (usually reckoned as three or four) fluidous portions of the eye. Any fluid; something which flows or moves in a fluidous manner: The liquid contained within a plant; plant juices. (rare) A liquid of the human body (e.g. blood) A mist or gas; a substance dissipated in the air. (rare) One of the four classical elements (fire, earth, air, and water). ==== Hyponyms ==== medicinal humors: humours: coler · flewme · malencolie · sanguine [edit] ==== Descendants ==== English: humour (see there for further descendants) Scots: humour ==== References ==== “hūmǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 December 2018. == Old French == === Noun === humour m or f (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of humor