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ichor

/ˈaɪkɔː/ UK
/-kə/ UK
/ˈɪkə/ UK
/ˈaɪkɔɹ/ US
/ˈɪkəɹ/ US

Where it comes from

Sense 1 (“liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods”) is borrowed from Medieval Latin ichor, from Ancient Greek ῑ̓χώρ (īkhṓr, “fluid running through the veins of gods, ichor; watery part of blood, lymph, serum; watery part of milk, whey; gravy; pus; naphtha”); further etymology unknown, probably from Pre-Greek.

Sense 2.4 (“fetid, watery discharge from a sore”) is from Middle English icor, icore [and other forms], from Medieval Latin ichor; see further above.

noun ichors

Greek, countable, uncountable The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods. This ſaid, ſhe wip’d from Venus’ wounded Palm / The ſacred Ichor, and infus’d the Balm.
broadly, countable, poetic, uncountable The blood of human beings or animals; also (obsolete) the clear, fluid portion of blood; blood plasma, plasma. He had merely meant to express his feeling that the streams which ran through their veins were not yet purified by time to that perfection, had not become so genuine an ichor, as to be worthy of being called blood in the genealogical sense.
broadly, countable, figuratively, poetic, uncountable A blood-like fluid. [I]chores and thoſe ſerious matters being thickned become flegme, and flegme degenerates into choler, choler aduſt becomes æruginoſa melancholia, as vinegar out of the pureſt wine putrified or by exhalation of purer ſpirits is ſo made, and becomes ſowre and ſharp; […]
archaic, broadly, countable, uncountable A fluid believed to seep out from magma and cause rock to turn into granite.
broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable A fetid, watery discharge from a sore; pus.
Similar: sanies

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noun liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods

Español	icor
日本語	イーコール iikooru
Português	icor
Français	ichor
Deutsch	Ichor
Italiano	icore
Ελληνικά	ιχώρ ichór
Русский	ихор ixor

noun fetid, watery discharge from a sore — see also pus

Español	icor
Русский	ихор ixor

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@misc{ichor_2026,
  title = {ichor},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ichor},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}