English

Noun

livor ‎(plural livors)

1. (pathology) Skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
2. (obsolete) Malice.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.66:

     To see a man […] magnify his friend unworthy with hyperbolical elogiums; his enemy, albeit a good man, to vilify and disgrace him, yea, all his actions, with the utmost livor and malice can invent.

Latin

Etymology

From līveō ‎(“I am bluish; I envy”) +‎ -or ‎(noun forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.wor/, [ˈliː.wɔr]

Noun

līvor m ‎(genitive līvōris); third declension

1. A bruise.
2. A bluish color.
3. (figuratively) envy, malice

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• līvēns
• līveō
• līvidus

Descendants

• English: #English:livor
• Spanish: #Spanish:livor

References

• livor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• livor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• LIVOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “livor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin līvor, līvōris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ˈβoɾ/

Noun

livor m ‎(plural livores)

1. a bluish color
2. malice, malignity
3. (archaic, literary) bruise

Synonyms

• (malice, malignity): maldad f, malicia f, malignidad f
• (bruise): cardenal m, moretón m

Related terms

• lívido