viveur
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
viveur (plural viveurs)
- Someone who lives well.
- "Walter Moyne was an extraordinary man, colossally rich, well-meaning, intelligent, scrupulous, yet a viveur ... he collected yachts, fish, monkeys and women." from Chips, the diaries of Sir Henry Channon. Edited by Robert Rhodes James. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1967.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
viveur m (plural viveurs)
- debauchee
- Tholomyès était un viveur de trente ans, mal conservé. Il était ridé et édenté; et il ébauchait une calvitie dont il disait lui-même sans tristesse: crâne à trente ans, genou à quarante. (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, t. 1, 1862)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “viveur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- “viveur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French viveur.
Noun[edit]
viveur m (invariable)
Further reading[edit]
- viveur in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
viveur m (plural viveuri)
Declension[edit]
Declension of viveur
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) viveur | viveurul | (niște) viveuri | viveurii |
genitive/dative | (unui) viveur | viveurului | (unor) viveuri | viveurilor |
vocative | viveurule | viveurilor |
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