# rancor
## English
### 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: /ˈɹæŋ.kɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
* Homophone: ranker

### Noun

rancor (countable and uncountable, plural rancors)
* (American spelling) A feeling of long-lasting ire for another, sometimes to the point of hatred, over a perceived wrongdoing; bitterness.
    I could almost see the rancor in his eyes when he challenged me to a fight.
* (rare) Rancidity, rankness.

#### Derived terms

* rancorous
* rancorously

#### Related terms

* rancid

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “rancor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* “rancor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Cranor, Carron, Corran

## Asturian
### Noun

rancor m (plural rancores)
* 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: /raŋˈkoɾ/

### Noun

rancor m (plural rancores)
* rancor; grudge
** 1446, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 635:estauan en moytas cartas de scomoion et testemoyos et eran en grande descordia et anduan en odios et rancoresthey were in many excommunicaton charters and litigations and they were in large discord and hate and rancor
** 1612, Pedro Vázquez de Neira, "Soneto", in Gómez Tónel, Exequias:
    aquel rancor que te carcome e lañathat rancor that eats away and cracks through you
    Synonym: xenreira

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rancura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rancor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rancor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rancor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rancor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Latin
### Etymology

From ranceō (“to be rotten, putrid”) +‎ -or (“-ness”, abstract noun suffix).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

rancor m (genitive rancōris); third declension (Late Latin)
* rancidity, stench, rankness
* 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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Middle English
### Noun

rancor
* Alternative form of rancour

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* rancour
* rancueur

### Noun

rancor oblique singular, f (oblique plural rancors, nominative singular rancor, nominative plural rancors)
* ill-will; negative opinion or intention

#### Descendants

* English: rancor, rancour
* French: rancœur

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈkoʁ/ [hɐ̃ˈkoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈkoʁ/ [hɐ̃ˈkoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈkoɾ/ [hɐ̃ˈkoɾ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈkoʁ/ [χɐ̃ˈkoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈkoɻ/ [hɐ̃ˈkoɻ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈkoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈkoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈko.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: ran‧cor

### Noun

rancor m (plural rancores)
* (usually uncountable) rancor; grudge (deep seated animosity)
    Synonyms: odiosidade, ressentimento
    Ainda guardamos rancor pelo que fizeram conosco.We still hold a grudge for what you did to us.

#### Related terms

* rancorejar
* rancorosamente
* rancoroso