different between espouse vs espouser

English

Etymology

From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin sp?ns?re, present active infinitive of sp?ns? (frequentative of sponde?), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??spa?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z, -a?s

Verb

espouse (third-person singular simple present espouses, present participle espousing, simple past and past participle espoused)

1. (transitive) To become/get married to.
2. (transitive) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
   • 1998, William Croft, Event Structure in Argument Linking, in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37

     Although Dowty’s proposal is attractive from the point of view of the alternative argument linking theory that I am espousing, since it eschews the use of thematic roles and thematic role hierarchies, […], but it still has some drawbacks.

Related terms

• espousal
• sponsor
• spouse

Translations

Anagrams

• poseuse

English

Etymology

espouse +? -er

Noun

espouser (plural espousers)

1. One who espouses; one who embraces or adopts the cause of another.

Anagrams

• repoussé

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French espouser, from Latin sp?ns?re, present active infinitive of sp?ns?.

Verb

espouser

1. (transitive) to marry

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Synonyms

• marier

Descendants

• French: épouser

Old French

Etymology

From Latin sp?ns?re, present active infinitive of sp?ns?.

Verb

espouser

1. (transitive) to marry

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-st are modified to s, st. This verb has a stressed present stem espeus distinct from the unstressed stem espous. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:espouser.

Synonyms

• marier

Descendants

• Middle English: espousen
  • English: to espouse
• Middle French: espouser
  • French: épouser
• Walloon: spozer