odium

Learned borrowing from Latin odium, from Proto-Italic *odjom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.di.əm/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.di.əm/
• Rhymes: -əʊdiəm
• Homophone: Odiham

odium (countable and uncountable, plural odiums)

1. Hatred; dislike.

   His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

   • 1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser:

     And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 207:

     ‘I warned you, if you give evidence against your husband, you will be shunned. You will be held in odium. You will be alone.’

2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act V, page 82:

     She threw the odium of the fact on me.

• duomi

From Proto-Italic *odjom, cognate with Oscan oiim. The d was restored under the influence of the related verb ōdī.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.di.um]

odium n (genitive odiī or odī); second declension

1. hatred, ill-will, aversion, dislike, disgust, detestation, odium, loathing, enmity or their manifestation
2. the condition of being hated, unpopularity
3. (by metonymy) an object of hatred or aversion
4. (in weaker sense) weariness, boredom, impatience or their manifestation

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• amor

• odiōsus

• ōdī

• “odium” on page 1239 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “odium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “odium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "odium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “odium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to incur a person's hatred: in odium, in invidiam venire alicui
    
  • to incur a person's hatred: alicuius odium subire, suscipere, in se convertere, sibi conflare
    
  • to incur a person's hatred: in alicuius odium incurrere
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: in invidiam, odium (alicuius) vocare aliquem
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: invidiam, odium ex-, concitare alicui, in aliquem
    
  • to glut one's hatred: odium explere aliqua re (Liv. 4. 32)
    
  • to conceive an implacable hatred against a man: odium implacabile suscipere in aliquem
    
  • to cherish an inveterate animosity against some one: odium inveteratum habere in aliquem (Vat. 3. 6)
    
  • to kindle hatred in a person's heart; to fill some one with hatred (not implere, vid. sect. IX. 2, note gaudio...): odium alicuius inflammare
    
  • to stifle, drown one's hatred: odium restinguere, exstinguere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hated by some one: odio, invidiae esse alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hated by some one: in odio esse apud aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to be separated by a deadly hatred: capitali odio dissidere ab aliquo (De Am. 1. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be consumed with hatred: odio or invidia alicuius ardere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be fired with a passionate hatred: odio inflammatum, accensum esse
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “odium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 7: N–Pas, page 324

Learned borrowing from Latin odium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.djum/

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• Rhymes: -ɔdjum
• Syllabification: o‧dium

odium n

1. odium

• “odium”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “odium”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)