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• ardour (chiefly British and Canada)

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-eh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *āzēō

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

English ardor

From Middle English ardour, ardowr, ardure, from Anglo-Norman ardour, from Old French ardur, from Latin ardor, from ardere (“to burn”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːdə/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑːɹdɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

ardor (countable and uncountable, plural ardors) (American spelling)

1. Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 120:
     I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished.
2. Spirit; enthusiasm; passion.
3. Intense heat.

• (warmth of feeling): intensity, flame
• (spirit): elan, fire in the belly, passion, zeal
• apathy

great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion

• Belarusian: імпэт m (impet)
• Bulgarian: плам (bg) (plam), жар (bg) (žar), страст (bg) (strast), усърдие (bg) (usǎrdie)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 熱情 / 热情 (zh) (rèqíng)
• Czech: vášeň (cs) f, vroucnost f, zanícení n
• Esperanto: ardo (eo)
• Finnish: lämpö (fi), tunteen palo (warmth of feeling); into (fi), innostus (fi), innokkuus (fi) (fervor); into (fi), intohimo (fi) (passion)
• French: ardeur (fr) f, ferveur (fr) f
• German: Begeisterung (de) f, Feuereifer (de) m, Hitze (de) f, Überschwang (de) m
• Hungarian: lelkesedés (hu), hév (hu), szenvedély (hu)
• Italian: ardore (it) m, fervore (it)
• Japanese: 熱情 (ja) (ねつじょう, netsujō), 情熱 (ja) (じょうねつ, jōnetsu)
• Māori: mate kanehe
• Middle English: ardour
• Old English: ǣling f
• Portuguese: ardor (pt) m
• Romanian: ardoare (ro) f, înflăcărare (ro) f, pasiune (ro) f, ardență (ro) f
• Russian: пыл (ru) m (pyl), рве́ние (ru) n (rvénije), усе́рдие (ru) n (usérdije)
• Sanskrit: घृण (sa) m (ghṛṇa)
• Slovak: zápal (sk) m, zapálenie n, vrúcnosť f, horlivosť f
• Spanish: fervor (es) m, ardor (es) m
• Swedish: glöd (sv) c, iver (sv) c
• Turkish:
  Ottoman Turkish: حرارت (hararet)

spirit

• Czech: nadšení (cs) n, zápal (cs) m, vášeň (cs) f
• Danish: iver
• Lithuanian: užsidegimas m
• Portuguese: ardor (pt) m
• Romanian: ardoare (ro) f, pasiune (ro) f
• Russian: страсть (ru) f (strastʹ)
• Spanish: pasión (es) f
• Swedish: passion (sv) c
• Turkish:
  Ottoman Turkish: حرارت (hararet)

heat

• French: ardeur (fr) f

• Portuguese: ardor (pt) m

• Romanian: arșiță (ro) f, ferbințeală f

• Russian: жара́ (ru) f (žará), зной (ru) m (znoj), жар (ru) m (žar)

• Spanish: ardor (es) m

• Turkish:
  Ottoman Turkish: حرارت (hararet)

• IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ərˈdo]

• IPA(key): (Valencia) [aɾˈðoɾ]

ardor m (plural ardors)

1. heat
2. ardor, passion

From Old Spanish, from Latin ardor.

ardor m (Hebrew spelling ארדור)

1. ardor, passion

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-eh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *āzēō

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin ārdor

From ārdeō + -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈaːr.dɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈar.dor]

ārdor m (genitive ārdōris); third declension

1. flame, fire, heat
   Synonym: calor
2. brightness, brilliancy (of the eyes)
3. ardour, eagerness, ardent desire
   Synonyms: cupīdō, vehementia, dēsīderium, appetītus, studium, impetus, amor, appetītiō, libīdō, alacritās
4. the object of ardent affection, love, flame
   Synonym: amor

Third-declension noun.

• English: ardor, ardour

• Catalan: ardor

• Old French: ardour, ardor, ardur f

  • > French: ardeur f (inherited)

• Galician: ardor

• Istriot: ardùr

• Italian: ardore

• Piedmontese: ardor

• Portuguese: ardor

• Romanian: ardoare

• Spanish: ardor

• “ardor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “ardor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• “ardor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

  • to be dried up by the sun's heat: ardore solis torreri
  • enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
  • to damp, chill enthusiasm: ardorem animi restinguere
  • his enthusiasm has abated, cooled down: ardor animi resēdit, consedit

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin ārdōrem.

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /aʁˈdoʁ/ [aɦˈdoh]

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /aʁˈdoʁ/ [aɦˈdoh]

  • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /aɾˈdoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /aʁˈdoʁ/ [aʁˈdoχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA(key): /aɻˈdoɻ/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐɾˈdoɾ/ [ɐɾˈðoɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐɾˈdoɾ/ [ɐɾˈðoɾ]

  • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐɾˈdo.ɾi/ [ɐɾˈðo.ɾi]

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ

• Hyphenation: ar‧dor

ardor m (plural ardores)

1. burning sensation
   Synonym: queimação
2. ardor (warmth of feeling)
3. spirit; enthusiasm
   Synonym: entusiasmo

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ardor.
• ardência
• ardentemente
• arder
• ardido
• “ardor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ardor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin ardōrem.

• IPA(key): /aɾˈdoɾ/ [aɾˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ar‧dor

ardor m (plural ardores)

1. ardor/ardour
2. fervor, heat
   Synonym: fervor
3. passion
   Synonym: pasión
4. burning (feeling)
   una sensación de ardor ― a burning sensation
5. eagerness
   Synonyms: avidez, ancia

• ardoroso

• arder

• ardiente

• “ardor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025