Humor

Japanese: Humor
Humor

…The original word for English humor (or humor in American English), German humour, French humeur, and Italian umore is the Latin humor. Originally, this word referred to four types of fluids that were thought to flow in the human body according to the ancient medical theory of Hippocrates of Greece. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Humor" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…英語でhumour(アメリカ英語ではhumor),ドイツ語でHumor,フランス語でhumeur,イタリア語でumore,これらの原語となっているのはラテン語のhumorである。本来この語は,ギリシアのヒッポクラテス以来の古い医学説によって人間の身体の中に流れていると考えられた,4種類の液体を指した。…

※「Humor」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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