Noun: rancor
| Singular | rancor |
| Plural | rancors |
Sample Sentences
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I could almost see the rancor in his eyes when he challenged me to a fight.
Nouns inflected like rancor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin ranceō
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *-s
5. Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
6. Proto-Italic *-ōs
7. Latin -or
8. Latin rancor
9. Old French rancorbor.
10. Middle English rancour
11. English rancor
12. First attested in the 13th century as Middle English rancour, from Old French rancor, from Latin rancor (“rancidity, grudge, rancor”), from ranceō (“to be rotten or putrid”), from which also English rancid. See: Middle English Nouns '
rancour', Latin Nouns '
rancor'.