odium

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin odium.

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Noun[edit]

odium (countable and uncountable, plural odiums)

  1. Hatred; dislike.
    • 1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser:
      And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
    • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 207:
      ‘I warned you, if you give evidence against your husband, you will be shunned. You will be held in odium. You will be alone.’
    His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
  2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
    • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. [], London: [] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, [], →OCLC, Act V, page 82:
      She threw the odium of the fact on me.

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *odjom, cognate with Oscan oiim. The d was restored under the influence of the related verb ōdī.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

odium n (genitive odiī or odī); second declension

  1. hatred, ill-will, aversion, dislike, disgust, detestation, odium, loathing, enmity or their manifestation
  2. the condition of being hated, unpopularity
  3. (by metonymy) an object of hatred or aversion
  4. (in weaker sense) weariness, boredom, impatience or their manifestation

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative odium odia
Genitive odiī
odī1
odiōrum
Dative odiō odiīs
Accusative odium odia
Ablative odiō odiīs
Vocative odium odia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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  • Inherited:
    • Italian: uggia
    • Old Catalan: oy
      • Catalan: oi (Mallorca)
    • Old Venetian: oio
  • Borrowed:

References[edit]

  • odium” on page 1239 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • odium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • odium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • odium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • odium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to incur a person's hatred: in odium, in invidiam venire alicui
    • to incur a person's hatred: alicuius odium subire, suscipere, in se convertere, sibi conflare
    • to incur a person's hatred: in alicuius odium incurrere
    • to make a person odious, unpopular: in invidiam, odium (alicuius) vocare aliquem
    • to make a person odious, unpopular: invidiam, odium ex-, concitare alicui, in aliquem
    • to glut one's hatred: odium explere aliqua re (Liv. 4. 32)
    • to conceive an implacable hatred against a man: odium implacabile suscipere in aliquem
    • to cherish an inveterate animosity against some one: odium inveteratum habere in aliquem (Vat. 3. 6)
    • to kindle hatred in a person's heart; to fill some one with hatred (not implere, vid. sect. IX. 2, note gaudio...): odium alicuius inflammare
    • to stifle, drown one's hatred: odium restinguere, exstinguere
    • (ambiguous) to be hated by some one: odio, invidiae esse alicui
    • (ambiguous) to be hated by some one: in odio esse apud aliquem
    • (ambiguous) to be separated by a deadly hatred: capitali odio dissidere ab aliquo (De Am. 1. 2)
    • (ambiguous) to be consumed with hatred: odio or invidia alicuius ardere
    • (ambiguous) to be fired with a passionate hatred: odio inflammatum, accensum esse
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “odium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 7: N–Pas, page 324
  1. ^ Schrijver, Peter (2016), “Oscan love of Rome”, in Glotta[1], volume 92, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISSN, →JSTOR, retrieved January 21, 2023, pages 223–226

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin odium.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

odium n

  1. odium

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Further reading[edit]

  • odium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • odium in Polish dictionaries at PWN