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7-letter words (1 found)

LANGUOR,

6-letter words (4 found)

LANGUR,LANUGO,OURANG,RUGOLA,

5-letter words (25 found)

ALGOR,ALONG,ANGLO,ARGOL,ARGON,GLAUR,GLUON,GNARL,GORAL,GOURA,GROAN,GUANO,GULAR,LARGO,LOGAN,LONGA,LORAN,LUNAR,NAGOR,ORANG,ORGAN,ROLAG,RUGAL,ULNAR,URNAL,

4-letter words (39 found)

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3-letter words (35 found)

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2-letter words (17 found)

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Definitions and meaning of languor

languor

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlæŋɡə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlæŋ(ɡ)ɚ/
  • Rhymes: -æŋɡə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: lan‧guor

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English langore, langour (“disease, illness; misery, sadness; suffering; condition or event causing sadness, suffering, etc.; unwholesomeness; idleness, inertia; depression, self-disgust; expression of grief”) [and other forms], from Middle French languer, langueur, langour, and Anglo-Norman langor, langour, langur, Old French langueur, languour (“disease, illness; suffering; emotional fatigue, sadness; listlessness; stagnation”) (modern French langueur (“languor”)), and from their etymon Latin languor (“faintness, feebleness; languor; apathy”), from languēre, the present active infinitive of langueō (“to feel faint or weak; (figurative) to be idle, inactive; to be listless”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-, *(s)leh₁g-. The English word is cognate with Catalan llangor, Italian languore (“faintness, weakness; languor”), langore (obsolete), Old Occitan langor (modern Occitan langor), Portuguese langor, languor (obsolete), Spanish langor.

Noun

languor (countable and uncountable, plural languors)

  1. (uncountable) A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; (countable) an instance of this.
    Synonym: torpor
  2. (uncountable) Melancholy caused by lovesickness, sadness, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
  3. (uncountable) Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.
  4. (uncountable) Listless indolence or inactivity, especially if enjoyable or relaxing; dreaminess; (countable) an instance of this.
  5. (uncountable) Heavy humidity and stillness of the air.
  6. (uncountable, obsolete) Sorrow; suffering; also, enfeebling disease or illness; (countable, obsolete) an instance of this.
Alternative forms
  • languour
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Etymology 2

The verb is derived from Middle English langouren (“to be ill; to languish, suffer; to cause to suffer”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman langurer and Middle French langorer, langorir, langourer (“to languish; to be languorous”), from Old French languerer, from langueur (“disease, illness; suffering; emotional fatigue, sadness; listlessness; stagnation”); see further at etymology 1 above. Later uses of the verb have been influenced by the noun.

Verb

languor (third-person singular simple present languors, present participle languoring, simple past and past participle languored)

  1. (intransitive) To languish.
Derived terms
  • languoring (adjective)
  • languoring (noun) (obsolete)
  • languorment (obsolete)
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References

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From langueō (“to be faint, weary, languid”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlan.ɡʷor/, [ˈɫ̪äŋɡʷɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlan.ɡwor/, [ˈläŋɡwor]

Noun

languor m (genitive languōris); third declension

  1. faintness, feebleness, languor, apathy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “languor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “languor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • languor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin languor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lanˈɡwoɾ/ [lãŋˈɡwoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: lan‧guor

Noun

languor m (plural languores)

  1. (rare) languor

Related terms

Further reading

  • “languor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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