odorus

odor (“smell”) +‎ -us (adjective-forming suffix)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔˈdoː.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈd̪ɔː.rus]

odōrus (feminine odōra, neuter odōrum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (chiefly poetic) odorous

   Synonyms: fragrans, olens

   Antonym: inodorus

2. (literary) sweet-smelling, fragrant

   Synonyms: beneodorus, fragrans, olens

3. (literary) foul-smelling, smelly, stinking

   Synonym: olens

4. That tracks by the smell
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.132:

     [...] Massȳlīque ruunt equitēs et odōra canum vīs.

     [As the hunting party gets underway,] out rush Massylian horsemen and potent scent-tracking hounds.
     (The “vis” may be understood as dogs who are eager, hardy, or “potent” in their scent-sniffing abilities, or perhaps the potent scents of the prey. An alternate phrasing: “hounds keen-nosed for the scents [of prey].” A literal translation, understanding “canum” as a genetive plural: “the strong scent-tracking of the dogs.”)

First/second-declension adjective.

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