adultère

See also: adultere, adulteré, and adultéré

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dyl.tɛʁ/

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Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin adulter (“adulterous; adulterer”). Compare Old French avoistre.

Adjective

adultère (plural adultères)

1. adulterous

   Synonym: infidèle

   • 1972, Georges Brassens, “À l’ombre des maris”, in Fernande:

     Ne jetez pas la pierre à la femme adultère / Je suis derrière…

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Derived terms

• adultérin

Related terms

• adultérer

Noun

adultère m or f by sense (plural adultères)

1. adulterer, adulteress (an adulterous woman)
   • 1739, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, L'anti-Machiavel:

     Les lois de Saxe condamnaient tout adultère à avoir la tête tranchée.

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Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French adultere, a borrowing from Latin adulterium, from adulter. Compare Old French avouterie.

Noun

adultère m (plural adultères)

1. adultery (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than his or her spouse)
   • 1901, Pierre Louÿs, Les Aventures du roi Pausole:

     Elle connut les joies de l’adultère, l’étroitesse du fiacre, l’odeur du meublé, l’heure trop courte, le faux nom et la poste restante.

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Descendants

• → Russian: адюльтер (adjulʹter)
  • → Georgian: ადიულტერი (adiulṭeri)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

adultère

1. inflection of adultérer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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