Noun: amour
Gender: mf
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | amour |
| Singular f | amour |
| Plural m | amours |
| Plural f | amours |
Sample Sentences
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1688, Guy Miège, French-English dictionary
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J’ai deux amours / Mon pays et Paris (I have two loves / My country and Paris) [1931, “J’ai deux amours”, performed by Josephine Baker:]
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Ô mon Amour/ Mes pensées sont en voyage / Elles s’enroulent comme un ruban / O my love I’ve been searching / But I don’t know how / To find my way in the world without you (O my Love / My thoughts are wandering / They wind like a ribbon / O my love I’ve been searching / But I don’t know how / To find my way in the world without you) [2008, Cécile Corbel, “Where have you been”, in Songbook vol. 3 - renaissance (CD), Brittany: Keltia Musique:]
Nouns inflected like amour
fétichiste,
modérantiste,
odontologiste,
fiduciaire,
cryptanalyste,
selfie,
neurologiste,
Sud-Est-Asiatique,
acridophage,
schizo,
motoneigiste,
bolchévique,
urbaniste,
activiste,
phalliste,
acrostiche,
électrosensible,
humaniste,
aromathérapeute,
œconomiste, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French amour, from Old French amor, from Latin amor.
2. The regular phonetic development would be ameur, attested in Old French (compare Picard anmeur). There has probably been an influence from Old Occitan. See: Latin Nouns '
amor'.
Verbs referencing "amour"
Romanian Nouns
amor, Russian Nouns
амур.
Translations