ABSTRACT
From Latin humor, “fluid,” “moisture.” This term was first used in the ancient medical theory of the humors, in which it was believed there was a dependency between human health and corporeal fluids. The lexical meaning of humor has changed over time, especially after the Renaissance, when the term began to refer to mood and temper since a humorist was one who was subject to capricious humors. The term “humorist” was then applied to those who affected a particular humor to an extreme degree. Nowadays, the word “humor” is better known as the faculty of the comic, projecting the joyful and sometimes even the ridiculous side of life.1
