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"mood" in seven languages

Meaningmood

Spanish

humor

/uˈmoɾ/

masc.learned

Estar de buen humor; estado de ánimo is the neutral term.

French

humeur

/ymœʁ/

fem.learned

Être de bonne humeur. 'Humour' is a different word: l'humour.

Italian

umore

/uˈmore/

masc.learned

Essere di buon umore.

Portuguese

humor

/uˈmoh/

masc.learned

Romanian

dispoziție

/dispoˈzitsie/

fem.other source · Latin DISPOSITIŌNEM, learned (after French disposition)

Umor in Romanian is 'humour', not 'mood'.

Catalan

humor

/uˈmor/

masc.learned

English

mood

/mud/

native English · Old English mōd 'mind, spirit'

English → ItalianmoodumoreNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: humor, humid.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

HŪMŌREM‘moisture, fluid’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Medieval medicine blamed your temper on four body fluids, the humours. The sisters still use the 'fluid' word for a mood: de buen humor, de bonne humeur, di buon umore.

English relatives: humor, humid

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In a sentence

  • esHoy está de buen humor.
  • frElle est de bonne humeur aujourd'hui.
  • itOggi è di buon umore.
  • ptEla está de bom humor hoje.
  • roAzi are o dispoziție excelentă.
  • caAvui està de bon humor.
  • enShe's in a good mood today.

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