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6-letter words (2 found)

CARRON,RANCOR,

5-letter words (4 found)

ACORN,CARON,NARCO,RACON,

4-letter words (12 found)

ACRO,ARCO,CARN,CARR,CORN,CRAN,CRON,NARC,ORCA,ORRA,ROAN,ROAR,

3-letter words (12 found)

ARC,CAN,CAR,CON,COR,NOR,OAR,OCA,ORA,ORC,RAN,ROC,

2-letter words (6 found)

AN,AR,NA,NO,ON,OR,

You can make 36 words from rancor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of rancor

rancor

Alternative forms

  • rancour (Commonwealth)

Etymology

First attested in the 13th century as Middle English rancour, from Old French rancor, from Latin rancor (“rancidity, grudge, rancor”), from ranceō (“I am rotten or putrid”), from which also English rancid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹæŋ.kɚ/
  • Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: ranker

Noun

rancor (countable and uncountable, plural rancors)

  1. (American spelling) A feeling of long-lasting ire for another, sometimes to the point of hatred, over a perceived wrongdoing; bitterness.
  2. (rare) Rancidity, rankness.

Derived terms

  • rancorous
  • rancorously

Related terms

  • rancid

Translations

References

  • “rancor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Carron, Cranor

Asturian

Noun

rancor m (plural rancores)

  1. rancor (the deepest malignity or spite)

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese (compare Old Galicia-Portuguese rancura, 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rancor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raŋˈkoɾ/

Noun

rancor m (plural rancores)

  1. rancor; grudge
    • 1612, Pedro Vázquez de Neira, "Soneto", in Gómez Tónel, Exequias:
    Synonym: xenreira

References

  • “rancura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “rancor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “rancor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “rancor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “rancor” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Etymology

ranceō (“I am rotten, putrid”) +‎ -or (“-ness”, abstract noun suffix)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈran.kor/, [ˈräŋkɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈran.kor/, [ˈräŋkor]

Noun

rancor m (genitive rancōris); third declension (Late Latin)

  1. rancidity, stench, rankness
  2. grudge, rancor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Portuguese: rancor
  • Spanish: rencor
  • Catalan: rancor
  • Galician: rancor
  • Occitan: rancur
  • Old French: rancor, rancure
    • Dutch: rankeur
    • English: rancor, rancour
    • French: rancœur, rancune
  • Italian: rancore

References

  • “rancor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rancor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rancor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Middle English

Noun

rancor

  1. Alternative form of rancour

Old French

Alternative forms

  • rancour
  • rancueur

Noun

rancor oblique singular, f (oblique plural rancors, nominative singular rancor, nominative plural rancors)

  1. ill-will; negative opinion or intention

Descendants

  • English: rancor, rancour
  • French: rancœur

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rancōrem (“rancor; putridity”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ran‧cor

Noun

rancor m (plural rancores)

  1. (usually uncountable) rancor; grudge (deep seated animosity)
    Synonyms: odiosidade, ressentimento

Related terms

  • rancorejar
  • rancorosamente
  • rancoroso

Source: wiktionary.org