humour

Etymology
From, from , , from , correctly , from , correctly. The h in these words, which was silent in late Classical Latin, is folk etymological, due to the erroneous association with the word.

The shift in meaning "liquid" > "mood" is attributed to the classical system of physiology, where human behaviour is regulated by four bodily humours (fluids). The sense "mood" gave rise to the verb sense "to give in to someone's mood or whim" and, by narrowing of meaning, the sense "wit".

Noun

 * 1)  The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
 * 2)  A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4) * 1763,, History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) page 42:
 * For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
 * 1)  Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
 * 2)  Moist vapour, moisture.
 * 1)  A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3) * 1763,, History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) page 42:
 * For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
 * 1)  Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
 * 2)  Moist vapour, moisture.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1763,, History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) page 42:
 * For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
 * 1)  Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
 * 2)  Moist vapour, moisture.
 * 1) * 1763,, History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) page 42:
 * For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
 * 1)  Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
 * 2)  Moist vapour, moisture.
 * 1)  Moist vapour, moisture.

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Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: فُكَاهَة, دُعَابَة
 * Armenian: հումար
 * Azerbaijani: yumor, ,
 * Belarusian: гу́мар
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kataw'anan
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: humuro
 * Estonian: huumor
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: იუმორი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: húmor
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: greann
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: әзіл
 * Khmer: ការកំប្លែង
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Latvian: humors
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: хумор
 * Malayalam: നർമ്മം, ഹാസ്യം,
 * Maori: manawareka
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: humor
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Spos
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: àbhachd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ху̀мор
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: balantong
 * Tajik: зарофат
 * Tatar: юмор
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Udmurt: серембур
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: مِزَاج
 * Belarusian: настро́й
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: humør
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: giúmar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: garastāvoklis
 * Lithuanian: nuotaika, nusiteikimas
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: humør
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: umor
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: расположење
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: nálada
 * Slovene: razpoloženje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic:, أَخْلَاط
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: perusneste
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Interlingua:
 * Japanese: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To pacify by indulging.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: tegemoet komen,,
 * Finnish: olla mieliksi
 * French:
 * German: jemandem seinen Willen lassen,
 * Hungarian:, kedvére tesz,
 * Irish: mol le, ionramhái
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: mōrigerō
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: seguir la corriente
 * Swedish: gå till mötes, foga sig

Etymology
, itself from,. .

Noun

 * 1) humor; comic effect in a communication or performance

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) sense of /humor

Etymology
From, from ,.

Noun

 * 1) A "cardinal humour" four liquids believed to affect health and mood
 * 2) A bodily liquid or substance that causes disease or affliction.
 * 3) A bodily liquid or substance that is caused by disease.
 * 4) One of the two (usually reckoned as three or four) fluidous portions of the eye.
 * 5) Any fluid; something which flows or moves in a fluidous manner:
 * 6) The liquid contained within a plant; plant juices.
 * 7)  A liquid of the human body e.g. blood
 * 8) A mist or gas; a substance dissipated in the air.
 * 9)  One of the four classical elements fire, earth, air, and water.