Odorâtus, huius odoratus, pen. prod. m. g. Plin. Cic.The power or sence of smelling or senting. Odoratus, idem quod odoratio.Cic.The acte of smelling. Odoratus. Plin. Odonr or sauour.
Odôro, odóras, pen. prod. odorare. Colu. To make to sinel well: to make to haue a good sauour: to perfume: to make odoriferous.Odorare mella. Colum. To make hony haue a good sauour.Odorant aerá fumis.Ouid.
Odôror, odoráris. Deponens. Colum. To smell: to sent.Odorate hanc quam ego habeo pallam, quid olet? Plaut.Cibum odoraris. Horat. Thou sinellest meate.
ŏdōro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [odor], to give a smell or fragrance to, to perfume a thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: oleo, fragro): odorant aëra fumis, Ov. M. 15, 734: mella, Col. 9, 4, 4: caelum sulfure, Avien. Arat. 1430.—Hence, ŏdōrātus, a, um, P. a., that has a smell, that emits an odor; esp., sweet-smelling, fragrant: quid tibi odorato referam sudantia ligno Balsama?Verg. G. 2, 119: cedrus, id. A. 7, 13: pabula, Col. 8, 17, 1: capilli, Hor. C. 3, 20, 14: comae, Ov. A. A. 2, 734: nectare odorato spargit corpus, id. M. 4, 250: odoratis ignibus, id. ib. 15, 574: Indi,
in whose country sweetsmelling spices grow
, Sil. 17, 658: Armenii, Tib. 1, 5, 36: dux, the prince of the Parthians or Assyrians, who border on Arabia, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 64.—Comp.: vina mustis odoratiora, Plin. 21, 7, 18, 35.—Sup.: odoratissimi flores, Plin. 28, 8, 28, 108.
ŏdōror, ātus, 1, v. dep. [id.], to smell at, examine by smelling (cf. olfacio). I.Lit.: pallam, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 55.—B.Transf., to smell out, detect by the scent; to scent: ibo odorans, quasi canis venaticus, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 113: cibum, Hor. Epod. 6, 10: hominem, Col. 6, 2: vultures sagacius odorantur, Plin. 10, 69, 88, 191: bellum, Vulg. Job, 39, 25.—II.Trop.A.To aspire to, aim at a thing, in a contemptuous sense; to snuff, as a dog: quos odorari hunc decemviratum suspicamini, Cic. Agr. 2, 24, 65.—B.To search out, trace out, investigate: odorabantur omnia et pervestigabant, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 13, 31: quid sentiant, id. de Or. 2, 44, 186: quid futurum sit, id. Att. 14, 22, 1: soles enim tu haec festive odorari, id. ib. 4, 14, 2: pecuniam, id. Clu. 30, 82: tu velim ex Fabio odorere, id. Att. 4, 8, 4: sagacius, id. ib. 6, 4, 3: odorandi vias occultas sagax, Amm. 14, 5, 6.—C.To get an inkling or smattering of any thing: odoratus philosophiam, Tac. Or. 19, 3: veritatem leviter, Lact. 7, 1, 11.