amoureux

See also: Amoureux

English

Etymology

From the French. Doublet of amoroso and amorous.

Noun

amoureux (plural amoureux)

1. A lover; a romantic partner.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 78:

     Ogier, thinking it is the Virgin Mary, commences an Ave; but the lady tells him she is Morgue la faye, who at his birth had kissed him, and retained him for her loyal amoureux, though forgotten by him.

   • 1907, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, page 408:

     "Yet your mother," Rowland objected, "told me just now that you say you don't care a button for him." "Very likely! I meant as an amoureux. One does n't want a lover one pities, and one does n't want - of all things in the world - a husband who's a picturesque curiosity."

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French amoureux, from Old French amoreus, amereus, from Vulgar Latin *amōrōsus, derived from Latin amōrem (“love”, noun). Compare English amorous, borrowed from Middle French. Doublet of amoroso, borrowed from Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mu.ʁø/

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• Rhymes: -ø

Adjective

amoureux (feminine amoureuse, masculine plural amoureux, feminine plural amoureuses)

1. in love

   Je suis amoureux de toi

   I'm in love with you

Derived terms

• tomber amoureux
• triangle amoureux

Descendants

• → German: amourös

Noun

amoureux m (plural amoureux, feminine amoureuse)

1. lover

Descendants

• → English: amoureux

Further reading

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

Paronyms

• Amouroux

 

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French amoreus.

Adjective

amoureux m (feminine singular amoureuse, masculine plural amoureux, feminine plural amoureuses)

1. in love

Descendants

• French: amoureux
  • → English: amoureux
  • → German: amourös