dolor

See also: dolôr

English

Noun

dolor (countable and uncountable, plural dolors)

1. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of dolour.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, page 455:

     Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 293, column 2:

     But for all this thou ſhalt haue as many Dolors for thy Daughters, as thou canſt tell in a yeare.

   • 1986, Rosemarie Tong, Ethics in Policy Analysis (Occupational Ethics Series), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 16:

     Supposedly, utilitarians are able to add and subtract hedons (units of pleasure) and dolors (units of pain) without any signs of cognitive or affective distress […]

Derived terms

• dolorifuge

Anagrams

• drool, loord

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin dolor, dolōrem.

Noun

dolor m (plural dolores)

1. pain

Related terms

• doler

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dolōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [duˈlo]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [doˈlo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [doˈloɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -o(ɾ)

Noun

dolor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural dolors)

1. pain of a continuing nature, especially that of rheumatism
2. sorrow or grief of a continuing nature

Derived terms

• adolorar
• adolorir
• dolor reumàtic
• dolorada
• Dolors

Related terms

• doler, doldre (verb)
• dolorós (adjective)

References

• “dolor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish dolor (“pain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈloɾ/, [d̪oˈloɾ]
• Hyphenation: do‧lor

Noun

dolor

1. pain; ache

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish dolor, from Latin dolor, dolōrem.

Noun

dolor f (Hebrew spelling דולור)

1. pain