sudor

1 9.9

A salty liquid the body makes when it is hot or stressed

noun
/ˈsuːdər/

Specialized

: sudor

In the hot summer, the sudor dripped from her forehead as she worked in the garden.

Examples

After jogging for an hour in the sun, he could feel the sudor running down his back.
The athletes wiped the sudor from their brows during the intense training session.
It exuded a faint, pleasant vinegary odor; Madge had mentioned acetic acid in the sudor of the pseudo-vertebrates.

Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

sweat

vssudor

288 1.0

The salty clear liquid that comes from your skin when hot or nervous

is the same bodily fluid but named with a different form

perspiration

vssudor

13 2.5

A salty liquid that the body makes when it is hot, active, or nervous

is focused more on secretion from heat or stress rather than activity

Surface Forms

sudor singular

sudors plural

Etymology

Sudor comes from the Latin word sudor, which simply means 'sweat'. In medicine it still names the salty fluid your body makes when you are hot or stressed.