SMELL Copy link • SMELL 1. s. Sense of smelling, odoratio: odoratus (☞ olfactus, both for odoratus and for odor, is not found in classicalprose). Scent, odor (general term): nidor (κνίσσα, of roast flesh and fat things prepared on the fire): anhelitus (of spirits). A bad smell, odor malus or teter; odor foetidus; foetor (a stench): a pleasant or agreeable smell, odor suavis; suavitas odoris: a strong, penetrating smell, odor gravis: to take a smell, odore imbui (Vid: Hor., Ep., 1, 2, 69: ☞ odorem ducere or ad se ducere is not Latin); alieno odore infici (after Plin., 15, 3, 4): to have or emit a smell, odorem habere, praestare, emittere (☞ poetical, spargere, spirare, diffundere): to have or emit a good, agreeable smell, bene or jucunde olere; a bad, disagreeable smell, male olere, foetere: to have the smell of anything, olere or redolere aliquid: a thing loses its smell, alicujus rei odor non permanet integer (after Col., 10, 49, 3): without smell, that has no smell, *odoratu or odoris sensu carens (that has not the sense of smell); odore carens, ex aliqua re odor non afflatur or odores non afflantur (that yields no smell). 2. v. Transitively, olfacere: olfactare (to smell anything; olfactare also = to try or examine by smelling): odorari (to try or examine by smelling): ad nares admovere (to hold to the nose for the purpose of smelling; e.g., fasciculum florum). ImPROP., To smell out anything, quodam odore suspicionis aliquid sentire (Cic.). Intransitively, olere (to have a scent; especially a bad scent): fragrare (to smell sweetly): redolere (to have a strong smell, good or bad): perolere (to have a strong, bad smell). To smell sweetly, bene or jucunde olere (Cic.); suavem odorem reddere (Plin.): the flowers smell sweetly, odores e floribus afflantur: to smell badly, male olere; reddere foetorem.