Noun: humor
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
countable and uncountable
| Sg. | humor |
| Pl. | humoren; humores |
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Etymology
1. Borrowed from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin hūmor. Doublet of humeur (“mood, mental state”).
2. The meaning of humor as in "a sense of amusement" entered Dutch from the US spelling of humour around ~1839. See: English Nouns '
humor', Latin Nouns '
hūmor'.
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