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.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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.