different between gandermooner vs adulterine

English

Noun

gandermooner (plural gandermooners)

1. (rare) A man who pursues other women during the later months of his partner's pregnancy.
   • 1961, Robertson Davies, The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose (page 190)

     I would have disguised myself as a sailor, a dissolute parson or a gandermooner, and lurked in the places where such people congregate, waiting to be approached.

   • 1969, Richard Dohrman, The Last of the Maidens (page 207)

     He was looking anything but the happy gandermooner of the night before. It seemed that his wife was nigh on her time, and that she and the midwife were both seeing portents and she wanted a parson standing by, for her ease of mind: […]

Related terms

• gander month

English

Etymology

From Latin adulter?nus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d?lt??a?n/
• (US) enPR: ?-d?l?t?-r?n, IPA^(key): /??d?lt??a?n/ or enPR: ?-d?l?t?-r?n, IPA^(key): /??d?lt??i?n/

Adjective

adulterine (comparative more adulterine, superlative most adulterine)

1. Spurious; due to adulteration.
2. Born of adultery.
3. Pertaining to adultery.
4. Illegal; unlicensed.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

     when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter , such adulterine guilds , as they were called , were not always disfranchised […]

Noun

adulterine (plural adulterines)

1. (rare) One born of an adulterous union.

Usage notes

• An adulterine is not the same as a bastard, which is a person born out of wedlock.

See also

Italian

Adjective

adulterine

1. feminine plural of adulterino

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.dul.te?ri?.ne/, [äd????t????i?n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.dul.te?ri.ne/, [?d?ul?t????i?n?]

Adjective

adulter?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of adulter?nus