malodorous
Meaningbad-smelling
Common meaning: smelling bad
- malbadly (Latin male)
- odora smell, scentLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1256 · scan
- ousadjective ending: full of, having
‘badly (Latin male)’ + ‘a smell, scent’ → malodorous
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin odor ‘a smell, scent’.
Roots
- odor, -ōris Latin “a smell, scent”
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