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Webster 1913 Edition
Languor
Lan′guor
,Noun.
[OE.
langour
, OF. langour
, F. langueur
, L. languor
. See Languish.] 1.
A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.
2.
Any enfeebling disease.
[Obs.]
Sick men with divers
languors
. Wyclif (Luke iv. 40).
Syn. – Feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude; listlessness.
Webster 1828 Edition
Languor
LAN'GUOR
,Noun.
1.
Feebleness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude of body; that state of the body which is induced by exhaustion of strength, as by disease, by extraordinary exertion, by the relaxing effect of heat, or by weakness from any cause.2.
Dullness of the intellectual faculty; listlessness.3.
Softness; laxity.To isles of fragrance, lily-silvered vales, diffusing languor in the parting gales.
Definition 2024
languor
languor
English
Alternative forms
Noun
languor (countable and uncountable, plural languors)
- (uncountable) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude
- languor of convalescence
- (countable) listless indolence; dreaminess
- a certain languor in the air hinted at an early summer -- James Purdy
- (uncountable) dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigor; stagnation
- from languor she passed to the lightest vivacity -- Elinor Wylie
- (obsolete, countable) An enfeebling disease; suffering
Related terms
Translations
a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling
Latin
Etymology
From langueō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlan.ɡʷor/, [ˈɫaŋ.ɡʷɔr]
Noun
languor m (genitive languōris); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | languor | languōrēs |
| genitive | languōris | languōrum |
| dative | languōrī | languōribus |
| accusative | languōrem | languōrēs |
| ablative | languōre | languōribus |
| vocative | languor | languōrēs |
Descendants
References
- languor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- languor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “languor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy: desidiae et languori se dedere
- to weary, bore the reader: languorem, molestiam legentium animis afferre
- to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy: desidiae et languori se dedere