ME & OFr dolour < L dolor < dolere, to suffer: see doleful
dolor in American English
(ˈdoulər)
noun
sorrow; grief
Alsoesp Britdolour
Word origin
[1275–1325; ME dolour (‹ AF) ‹ L dolor, equiv. to dol(ēre) to feel pain + -or-or1]This word is first recorded in the period 1275–1325. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: block, carry, dress, issue, return-or is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, directly or through Anglo-French,usually denoting a condition or property of things or persons, sometimes correspondingto qualitative adjectives ending in -id (ardor; honor; horror; liquor; pallor; squalor; torpor; tremor); a few other words that originally ended in different suffixes have been assimilatedto this group (behavior; demeanor; glamour)