different between amorous vs amour

English

Alternative forms

• amourous

Etymology

From Middle English amorous, amerous (14th century), from Old French amoros, amoreus, from Medieval Latin am?r?sus, from Latin amor (“love”), related to am?re (“to love”). Compare French amoureux (“in love”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.m??s/, /?æ.m?.??s/

Adjective

amorous (comparative more amorous, superlative most amorous)

1. Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

   Synonyms: loving, fond, affectionate

2. Indicating love or sexual desire.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 218):

     There was no tune to it, only amorous gruntings like those of some old satyr who had furnished music for Circe's revels.

3. Of or relating to, or produced by, love.

4. (dated) Affected with love; in love; enamored.

Synonyms

• concupiscent
• lustful

Derived terms

• amorously

Related terms

• amour

Translations

References

• amorous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• amorous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• amor

Etymology

Borrowed from French amour.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??m??r/, /æ?m??r/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???m?r/

Noun

amour (countable and uncountable, plural amours)

1. (obsolete) Love, affection.
2. Courtship; flirtation.
3. A love affair.
4. A lover.

Related terms

Anagrams

• Morua, Omura

French

Etymology

From Middle French amour, from Old French amor, from Latin amor. The regular phonetic development would be ameur, attested in Old French; there has probably been an influence from Old Occitan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mu?/
• ,
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: amours

Noun

amour m or f (plural amours)

1. love

Usage notes

• Though masculine when singular, the word amour is feminine when plural in the literary language; the same applies to délice and orgue.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “amour” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French amor, from Latin amor.

Noun

amour m (plural amours)

1. love

Descendants

• French: amour

Norman

Etymology

From Old French amor, from Latin amor.

Noun

amour m (plural amours)

1. (Jersey) love