different between lover vs cynophile

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English lovere, luffer, lufere, equivalent to love +? -er.

Alternative forms

• lovyer (dialectal or obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?v?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?v?/
• Hyphenation: lov?er
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)

Noun

lover (plural lovers)

1. One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse.

   Synonyms: love, love interest, spouse, sweetheart, significant other; see also Thesaurus:lover
2. A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sexual partner

   • 2018 January 17, "Libra Woman: Personality Traits: Love & More", Astrology.com [1]

     A Libra woman seems to always be in love - either with her long term partner or with an ever-changing series of rotating lovers.

3. A person who loves something.

   Synonym: connoisseur
4. (West Country, with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.

Derived terms

• book lover, booklover
• Latin lover
• loverhood
• lover's lane / lovers' lane

Descendants

• ? German: Lover

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

lover (plural lovers)

1. Obsolete form of louver.

Anagrams

• Vlorë

Dutch

Alternative forms

• loover (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lover, originally the plural of loof. As with other words with plurals in -er, eventually this was substituted with -eren, creating loveren. This new plural was then reanalysed as a separate noun and a new singular form lover was back-formed from it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?.v?r/
• Hyphenation: lo?ver
• Rhymes: -o?v?r

Noun

lover n (plural lovers, diminutive lovertje n)

1. foliage

Synonyms

• gebladerte
• lommer

Anagrams

• vloer

French

Etymology

A 17th century borrowing from North Sea Germanic language verb "lofen, lufen". The 1986 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française identifies the source as Low German (Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German); Jan de Vries' Nederlands Etymologisch Woordenboek (which identifies it as a possible cognate of Dutch leuver) suggests East Frisian instead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?.ve/

Verb

lover

1. to coil (a rope or cord), to fake a line
2. (reflexive, of a snake) to coil up, wind up; to curl up

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• voler

Middle English

Noun

lover (plural lovers)

1. lover

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lover m pl

1. indefinite masculine plural of lov

Verb

lover

1. present tense of love

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• lovar m pl

Noun

lover f pl

1. indefinite feminine plural of lov

Etymology 2

Verb

lover

1. present of lova

English

Etymology

cyno- +? -phile

Noun

cynophile (plural cynophiles)

1. A person who loves canines; a dog lover.

Synonyms

• canophile
• canophilist
• dog fancier
• dog freak
• doglover
• dogophile

Related terms

• cynophilia

Translations

Anagrams

• cophyline, pyochelin