English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French par amor (“for love's sake”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Adverb [edit]
paramour (not comparable)
- (obsolete, of loving, etc.) Passionately, out of sexual desire; devotedly. [from 14th c.]
- Chaucer
- For par amour I loved her first ere thou.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
- And as for to say that I love La Beall Isode paramoures, I dare make good that I do, and that she hath my servyse abovyn all other ladyes, and shall have, all the terme of my lyff.
paramour (plural paramours)
- An illicit lover, either male or female.
Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
illicit lover
- Arabic: خليل (ar) (khalīl) m (male), خليلة (ar) (khalīla) f (female), عشيق (ar) (ʿashīq) m (male), عشيقة (ar) (ʿashīqa) f (female)
- Armenian: սիրած (hy) (siraç), սիրեկան (hy) (sirekan) (male), սիրուհի (hy) (siruhi) (female)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 姦夫 (cmn), 奸夫 (cmn) (jiānfū) (male); 姦婦 (cmn), 奸妇 (cmn) (jiānfù) (female), 情婦 (cmn), 情妇 (cmn) (qíngfù) (female), 相好的 (cmn) (xiānghǎo-de) (colloquial)
- Finnish: rakastaja (fi) (male), rakastajatar (fi) (female)
- French: amant (fr) m (male), maîtresse (fr) f (female)
- German: Geliebte (de) f, Geliebter (de) m, Liebhaber (de) m, Liebhaberin (de) f, Mätresse (de) f, Poussage (de) f
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- Italian: amante (it) m and f
- Japanese: 愛人 (ja) (あいじん, aijin) (male and female), 情婦 (ja) (じょうふ, jōfu) (female only)
- Macedonian: љубовник (mk) (ljubóvnik) m (male), љубовница (mk) (ljubóvnica) f (female), швалерка (mk) (šválerka) f (female)
- Persian: فاسق (fa) (fâseq)
- Polish: kochanek (pl) m, kochanka (pl) f
- Russian: любовник (ru) (ljubóvnik) m (male), любовница (ru) (ljubóvnica) f (female)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:
- Roman: ljubavnik (sh) m, švaler (sh) m
- Slovene: ljubimec (sl) m, ljubimka (sl) f
- Spanish: amante (es) m and f, amor prohibido (es) m, aventura secreta (es) f
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