# humor
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /hjuː.mə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈhjuːmɚ/, /ˈjuːmɚ/, [ˈçjuːmɚ]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: hu‧mor
* Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

### Noun

humor (usually uncountable, plural humors)
* US spelling of humour
    He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.
** 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana, PG, page 40:For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
** 1987, Gerald Ford, “What's So Funny About the Presidency?”, in Humor and the Presidency‎, New York: Arbor House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:There are two ways to become an authority on humor. The first way is to be one of the perpetrators. You know them: comedians, satirists, cartoonists, and impersonators. The second way to gain such credentials is to be the victim of their merciless talents. As such a victim, I take a backseat to no one as far as humor is concerned.

### Verb

humor (third-person singular simple present humors, present participle humoring, simple past and past participle humored)
* US spelling of humour
    I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

### Further reading

* Humour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Humorism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “humor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “humor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “humor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* mohur

## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.

### Noun

humor m (plural humores)
* mood (mental state)
* humour

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hūmōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [uˈmor]
* IPA: (Balearic) [uˈmo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [uˈmoɾ]

### Noun

humor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural humors)
* humour

#### Derived terms

* humorós

#### Related terms

* humit

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦumor]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

humor m inan
* humor (US), humour (UK) (source of amusement)

#### Derived terms

* humorista m
* humorný
* smysl pro humor m

### Further reading

* “humor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “humor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Etymology

From Latin (h)ūmor (“fluid”). Doublet of humør (“spirits, mood”). The modern use of this word for mental processes goes back to Ancient and Medieval theories about the four fluids of the body.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /huːmɔr/, [ˈhuːmɐ]

### Noun

humor c (singular definite humoren, not used in plural form)
* humour (amusement and the sense of amusement)

#### Declension
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin hūmor. Doublet of humeur (“mood, mental state”).
The meaning of humor as in "a sense of amusement" entered Dutch from the US spelling of humour around ~1839.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɦymɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: hu‧mor

### Noun

humor m (plural humoren or humores)
* (uncountable) humour (sense of amusement)
* (countable, archaic or historical) humour (bodily fluid) [from the 15th c.]

#### Related terms

* humeur
* humoor
* humore
* humoristisch
* humuer

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hūmor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhumor]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: hu‧mor
* Rhymes: -or

### Noun

humor (plural humorok)
* humour, humor (the quality of being amusing, comical, or funny)

#### Derived terms

* humorizál
* humoros
* akasztófahumor
* humorérzék

#### Related terms

* humorista

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* humor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Alternative spelling of ūmor found in the later Roman Empire, when the letter h had already become silent. See also the related hūmidus.

#### Alternative forms

* ūmor

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈhuː.mor/, [ˈhuːmɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈu.mor/, [ˈuːmor]
* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈuː.mor/, [ˈuːmɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈu.mor/, [ˈuːmor]

#### Noun

hūmor m (genitive hūmōris); third declension
* liquid, fluid, humour

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* exhūmōrō
* hūmōrōsus

##### Descendants

* → Asturian: humor
* → Catalan: humor
* → Czech: humor
* → Danish: humor
* → Esperanto: humuro (via descendants)
* → German: Humor (see there for further descendants)
* ⇒ Hebrew: הומור
* → Hungarian: humor
* → Ido: humuro (via descendants)
* Italian: umore, omore
* Ladino: umor
* → Macedonian: хумор (humor)
* → Old Galician-Portuguese: humor, umor
** Portuguese: humor
* → Old French: humor, humour (less common)
** French: humeur (see there for further descendants)
** → Middle Dutch: humuere
*** Dutch: humeur (see there for further descendants)
** → Middle English: humour, humore, umour, humor, humur, humer
*** English: humour (see there for further descendants)
*** Scots: humour
* → Spanish: humor

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈhu.mor/, [ˈhʊmɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈu.mor/, [ˈuːmor]

#### Verb

humor
* first-person singular present passive indicative of humō

### References

* “humor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “humor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Middle English
### Noun

humor
* Alternative form of humour

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.

### Noun

humor m (definite singular humoren)
* humour (UK) or humor (US)

#### Derived terms

* galgenhumor

### References

* “humor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin hūmor, via German Humor and English humour or humor.

### Noun

humor m (definite singular humoren)
* humor (US) or humour (UK)

#### Derived terms

* galgenhumor

### References

* “humor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* humour (less common)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hūmor, hūmōrem.

### Noun

humor m or f
* humor (one of four fluids that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body)

#### Descendants

* French: humeur (see there for further descendants)
* → Middle Dutch: humuere
** Dutch: humeur (see there for further descendants)
* → Middle English: humour, humore, umour, humor, humur, humer
** English: humour (see there for further descendants)
** Scots: humour

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hūmor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxu.mɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -umɔr
* Syllabification: hu‧mor

### Noun

humor m inan (diminutive humorek, related adjective humorny)
* (uncountable) humour (ability to see what the funny side of things and make others laugh)
* (uncountable) humour (quality of being amusing, comical, funny)
* (uncountable) humour (collection of texts or fragments of texts that entertain or make people laugh)
* (uncountable) humour, mood (temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim)
    Synonym: nastrój
    czarny humor ― dark humour
    wisielczy humor ― gallows humour
    poczucie humoru ― sense of humour
** (uncountable) good mood (mental state characterized by the dominance of positive feelings as a result of the relationship of a person to the surrounding world)
* (in the plural) humours (mental state that occurs abruptly and without a cause, manifested by mood variation, dissatisfaction, or anger)
* (countable, historical, medicine) humour (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)

#### Derived terms

* humoralny
* humorowaty
* humorzasty
* w różowym humorze
* czarny humor
* humor sytuacyjny
* wisielczy humor

#### Related terms

* humorystyczny
* humoralnie
* humorystycznie
* humoreska
* humorysta
* humorystka
* humorystyczność
* humorystyk
* humorystyka
* humoryzm
* humorzysta
* humorzystka

### Further reading

* humor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* humory in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* humor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* humor in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese umor, humor, borrowed from Latin hūmōrem (“humour, fluid”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /uˈmoʁ/ [uˈmoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /uˈmoʁ/ [uˈmoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /uˈmoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /uˈmoʁ/ [uˈmoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /uˈmoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /uˈmoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /uˈmoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /uˈmo.ɾi/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
* Hyphenation: hu‧mor

### Noun

humor m (plural humores)
* mood (mental state)
    Synonyms: disposição, espírito, temperamento
* humour; bodily fluid
* (historical) humour (one of the four basic bodily fluids in humourism)
    Hyponyms: bile amarela, bile negra, fleuma, sangue
* humour (quality of being comical)
    Synonyms: comédia, comicidade, graça

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:humor.

#### Derived terms

* bom humor
* mau humor
* humor vítreo
* humor negro

#### Related terms

* humorado
* humoral
* humorismo
* humorista
* humorístico
* humoroso

## Romanian
### Noun

humor n (plural humoare)
* Alternative form of umor

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English humor, from Latin hūmor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xǔmor/
* Hyphenation: hu‧mor

### Noun

hùmor m (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)
* (uncountable) humor

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hūmōrem. Cognate with English humor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uˈmoɾ/ [uˈmoɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: hu‧mor

### Noun

humor m (plural humores)
* mood
    estar de buen humor ― to be in a good mood
* humor
    un sentido del humor ― a sense of humor

#### Derived terms

* cambio de humor
* humor ácueo
* humor acuoso
* humor blanco
* humor de perros
* humor negro
* humorismo
* humorista
* humorístico
* humoroso
* mal humor
* malhumor
* sentido del humor

#### Related terms

* húmedo
* humo

### Further reading

* “humor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Originally from Latin hūmor (“fluid”), having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör (“mood, temper”). The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

humor c
* humor
    ha sinne för humorhave a sense of humor

#### Related terms

* folkhumor
* galghumor
* humorbefriad
* humoresk
* humorfri
* humorfylld
* humorgrupp
* humorinslag
* humorist
* humoristisk
* humorlös
* humorprogram
* humorserie
* kalsonghumor
* underlivshumor

### References

* humor in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* humor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* humor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* humor, humör in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)