enamor

WOTD - 17 August 2010    

English

Alternative forms

• enamour
• inamor (archaic)
• inamour (archaic)

Etymology

Old French enamourer, enamorer; prefix en- (Latin in) + Old French & French amour (“love”), Latin amor. See amour, and confer inamorato.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɪˈnæmə(r)/, SAMPA: /I"n{m@/

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• Rhymes: -æmə(r)

Verb

enamor (third-person singular simple present enamors, present participle enamoring, simple past and past participle enamored)

1. To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; — with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.

   Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. — Washington Irving.

Translations

to inflame with love

Armenian: դյութել (hy) (dyut’el), հմայել (hy) (hmayel), գրավել (hy) (gravel), սիրահարեցնել (hy) (siraharec’nel) Catalan: enamorar (ca) Finnish: rakastua (fi)

German: erobern (de) Polish: oczarować (pl), rozkochać (pl) Russian: очаровать (ru)

References

• enamor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• anomer
• maenor
• moaner
• Monera