nidor

== English == === Etymology === From Latin nidor. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnʌɪdə/, /ˈnʌɪdɔː/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈnaɪdəɹ/ === Noun === nidor (countable and uncountable, plural nidors) The smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat. 1743, Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity, edition 3 (London), page 524: The First-fruits were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in sacrificiing Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the Smoke, and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with human Sacrifices. (nonstandard) Any smell. ==== Derived terms ==== === Anagrams === dinor == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *knīdōs or *kneydōs, an abstract noun in *-ōs (> Latin -or) from a root *kneyd- (“to scratch”), or alternatively *kniHd-. Potential cognates include Ancient Greek κνῑ́ση (knī́sē, “smell of roasting fat”) (Homeric), κνῖσα (knîsa) (Attic), κνίζω (knízō, “to scratch”), κνῑ́δη (knī́dē, “nettle”), Icelandic hniss n (“strong smell (from cooking)”). For the semantic development, Beekes compares the difference in meaning between English stink and Gothic stigqan (“to clash”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈniː.dɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈniː.dor] === Noun === nīdor m (genitive nīdōris); third declension the steam or smell from roasting, burning or boiling (especially animals) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: nidor Italian: nidore Portuguese: nidor === References === === Further reading === “nidor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nidor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “nidor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.