uvor

Latin

Etymology

From *ūveō + -or, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ-. See ūvidus and ūmeō (“to be moist”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.wɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.vor]

Noun

ūvor m (genitive ūvōris); third declension

1. (hapax legomenon) moisture, humidity
   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, On the Latin Language 4:

     Uvae ab uvore.

     The name of grapes [uva] comes from their humidity [uvor].

Usage notes

Only attested in the gloss from Varro cited above.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ūvor	ūvōrēs
genitive	ūvōris	ūvōrum
dative	ūvōrī	ūvōribus
accusative	ūvōrem	ūvōrēs
ablative	ūvōre	ūvōribus
vocative	ūvor	ūvōrēs

References

• “uvor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “uvor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.