adorer

English

Etymology

From adore +‎ -er.

Noun

adorer (plural adorers)

1. Someone who adores.
   1. Someone who worships.
      • 1582, Gregory Martin (translator), The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully into English, Reims: John Fogny, John 4.23, p. 226,^[1]

        But the houre commeth, and now it is, when the true adorers shal adore the Father in spirit and veritie.

      • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book 8, lines 140-143,^[2]

        […] I in one Night freed

        From servitude inglorious welnigh half

        Th’ Angelic Name, and thinner left the throng

        Of his adorers […]

      • 1798, Thomas Paine, Atheism Refuted, London: J. Johnson, p. 17,^[3]

        All men in the outset of the religion they profess are adorers of a God, and friends of man.

      Synonyms: devotee, worshipper

   2. Someone who has a deep admiration, fondness or love (of someone or something).
      • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act I, Scene 4,^[4]

        […] I profess myself her adorer, not her friend.

      • 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron, Dublin: G. Risk et al., Volume 2, Dialogue 6, Chapter 32, p. 83,^[5]

        I who profess my self an Admirer, an Adorer of Reason, am obliged to own, that in some Cases the Sharpness of Ridicule can do more than the Strength of Argument.

      • 1871, W. S. Gilbert, “Old Paul and Old Tim” in More “Bab” Ballads, London: Routledge, 1892, p. 164,^[6]

        When rival adorers come courting a maid,

        There’s something or other may often be said,

        Why he should be pitched upon rather than him.

        This wasn’t the case with Old PAUL and Old TIM.

      • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, London: Picador, Chapter 13, p. 403,^[7]

        The funny thing was that all the envelopes were addressed in the same hand, in green or sometimes purple capitals. It was like one crazed adorer laying siege to Leo.

      Synonym: admirer

Translations

someone who adores

• Catalan: adorador m
• Czech: zbožňovatel m
• Interlingue:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: adhraitheoir m
• Portuguese: adorador (pt) m
• Spanish: adorador (es) m

Anagrams

• roader, roared

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Catalan

Etymology

Ador +‎ -er

Adjective

adorer (feminine adorera, masculine plural adorers, feminine plural adoreres)

1. Ador (Valencia, Spain) (attributive), of Ador, from Ador

Noun

adorer m (plural adorers, feminine adorera)

1. a person from, or an inhabitant of Ador, Valencia, Spain

Further reading

• “adorer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “adorer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “adorer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From Old French adorer, borrowed from Latin adōrō, adōrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔ.ʁe/

• audio:

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Verb

adorer

1. to love, to adore
2. (religion) to worship

Conjugation

Conjugation of adorer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	adorer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	adorant /a.dɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		adoré /a.dɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	adore /a.dɔʁ/	adores /a.dɔʁ/	adore /a.dɔʁ/	adorons /a.dɔ.ʁɔ̃/	adorez /a.dɔ.ʁe/	adorent /a.dɔʁ/
	imperfect	adorais /a.dɔ.ʁɛ/	adorais /a.dɔ.ʁɛ/	adorait /a.dɔ.ʁɛ/	adorions /a.dɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	adoriez /a.dɔ.ʁje/	adoraient /a.dɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	adorai /a.dɔ.ʁe/	adoras /a.dɔ.ʁa/	adora /a.dɔ.ʁa/	adorâmes /a.dɔ.ʁam/	adorâtes /a.dɔ.ʁat/	adorèrent /a.dɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	adorerai /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	adoreras /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	adorera /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	adorerons /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	adorerez /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	adoreront /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	adorerais /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	adorerais /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	adorerait /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	adorerions /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	adoreriez /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	adoreraient /a.dɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	adore /a.dɔʁ/	adores /a.dɔʁ/	adore /a.dɔʁ/	adorions /a.dɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	adoriez /a.dɔ.ʁje/	adorent /a.dɔʁ/
	imperfect2	adorasse /a.dɔ.ʁas/	adorasses /a.dɔ.ʁas/	adorât /a.dɔ.ʁa/	adorassions /a.dɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	adorassiez /a.dɔ.ʁa.sje/	adorassent /a.dɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	adore /a.dɔʁ/	—	adorons /a.dɔ.ʁɔ̃/	adorez /a.dɔ.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• adorable
• adorateur
• adoration

 

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: adore

Further reading

• “adorer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dorera, rodera, rôdera

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈdoː.rer/, [äˈd̪oːrɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈdo.rer/, [äˈd̪ɔːrer]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) adōrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adōrō

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Old French

Alternative forms

• adurer

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adōrō, adōrāre. Doublet of aorer. The -d- was re-introduced from influence from Ecclesiastical Latin.

Verb

adorer

1. (chiefly Christianity) to praise (usually God)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of adorer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		adorer			avoir adoré
gerund		en adorant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		adorant
past participle		adoré
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	ador	adores	adore	adorons	adorez	adorent
	imperfect	adoroie, adoreie, adoroe, adoreve	adoroies, adoreies, adoroes, adoreves	adoroit, adoreit, adorot, adoreve	adoriiens, adoriens	adoriiez, adoriez	adoroient, adoreient, adoroent, adorevent
	preterite	adorai	adoras	adora	adorames	adorastes	adorerent
	future	adorerai	adoreras	adorera	adorerons	adoreroiz, adorereiz, adorerez	adoreront
	conditional	adoreroie, adorereie	adoreroies, adorereies	adoreroit, adorereit	adoreriiens, adoreriens	adoreriiez, adoreriez	adoreroient, adorereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	ador	adors	adort	adorons	adorez	adorent
	imperfect	adorasse	adorasses	adorast	adorissons, adorissiens	adorissoiz, adorissez, adorissiez	adorassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	adore	—	adorons	adorez	—

Descendants

• Middle French: adorer
  • French: adorer
    • Haitian Creole: adore
  • → Dutch: adoreren
• → Middle English: adoren
  • English: adore