different between male vs love

English

Etymology

From Middle English male, borrowed from Old French malle, masle (Modern French mâle), from Latin masculus (“masculine, a male”), diminutive of m?s (“male, masculine”). Doublet of macho.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: m?l, IPA^(key): /me?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: mail

Adjective

male (not generally comparable, comparative maler or more male, superlative malest or most male)

1. Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]

   male writers

   the leading male and female singers

   a male bird feeding a seed to a female

   in bee colonies, all drones are male

   intersex male patients

   • 1995, Gill Van Hasselt, Childbirth: Your Choices for Managing Pain (Taylor Pub, ?ISBN):

     We got the hang of [caring for a baby], Kate and I, with some quiet, surprising guidance from a gentle male nurse whose touching lack of intrusion was so instinctive as to seem part of the pattern.

   • 2016, Tobias Raun, Out Online (?ISBN):

     Whereas many other trans male vloggers use the videos to assert a conventionally recognizable masculinity through sculpting and carrying their bodies as well as dressing and talking in masculine-coded ways, Carson explores and plays with ways of expressing femininity within (trans) maleness.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
2. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)

   stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration

   • 2006, Bonnie Roberts, Bruises on the Heart (?ISBN), page 118:

     A bright light was shone in her eye and then she heard a kind, male voice who she figured must be Dr. Smith. “Yes, let her rest now, but keep an eye on her blood pressure and her pulse. Check her about every 15 or 20 minutes. Call me if any problem occurs.”

   • 2004, Mino Vianello, Gwen Moore, Women and Men in Political and Business Elites: A Comparative Study (?ISBN):

     More than that, we cannot find the same dynamics within female career trajectories as in the other two country groups, because the time-structure of female and male careers already shows great similarity within the older generation of elites. In addition, the pattern of the relation between female and male careers remains the same over time.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
3. Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.

   the male chromosome;   like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones

4. (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
   • 2012, Sinéad Leleu, Michaela Greck-Ismair, German Pen Pals Made Easy KS3

     If you are describing a female noun, you must make the adjective feminine by adding an 'e'. If you describe a male noun, you add an 'er'. For neutral nouns you add an 'es'.

5. (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware. [from 16th c.]
   • 1982, Popular Science, page 119:

     Male adapter connects female pipe threads to polyethylene cold-water pipe; [...] female flare coupling connects male pipe threads to flared copper or plastic;

Synonyms

• manly, mannish, masculine
• (figurative: of instuments, etc): plug, pin

Coordinate terms

• female; androgynous; intersex; non-binary
• (grammar): female: see also masculine

Derived terms

• male-assigned, cis male, trans male
• male-dominated

Translations

Noun

male (plural males)

1. One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
   1. A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
   2. An animal of the sex that has testes.
   3. A plant of the masculine sex.

Antonyms

• female

Hyponyms

• man, boy

Translations

See also

• macho
• ? (symbol for male)
• sex, gender, gender identity

Anagrams

• -meal, Elam, Elma, Leam, Lema, alme, amel, lame, lamé, leam, lema, meal, mela, mela-

Afar

Etymology

From maléey (“no”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??le/

Particle

malé

1. no

Synonyms

• maléey

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?l?/, [?mæ?l?]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German m?len (“to draw, paint”), from Proto-Germanic *m?l?n?, which could be related to *mail? (“spot, blemish, mark”). Cognate with Icelandic mála (“to paint”).

Verb

male (imperative mal, present maler, past malede or malte, past participle malet or malt)

1. To paint.

Derived terms

• maler (“painter”)
• maleri (“painting”)
• maling (“paint”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mala, from Proto-Germanic *malan? (“to grind”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, rub, break up”). Cognate with Icelandic mala.

Verb

male (imperative mal, infinitive at male, present tense maler, past tense malede, perfect tense er/har malet)

1. To grind, mill.

Derived terms

• maling (“grinding”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

male

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of maal

Verb

male

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of malen

Esperanto

Etymology

From prefix mal- (antonym) +? -e (indicates adverbs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?male/
• Hyphenation: ma?le
• Rhymes: -ale
• Audio:

Adverb

male

1. on the contrary
2. opposingly; in opposition

Estonian

Etymology

From malev (“army”), a word attested in the 13th century Livonian Chronicle of Henry. Coined by Ado Grenzstein in the 19th century.

Noun

male (genitive male, partitive malet)

1. (board games) chess

Declension

See also

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l?

Verb

male

1. inflection of malen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Italian

Etymology

From Latin male.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.le/

Adverb

male (comparative: peggio; superlative: malissimo)

1. badly, wrongly

   Antonym: bene

Noun

male m (plural mali)

1. evil, harm
2. pain, ache, illness, sickness, disease

Antonyms

• bene

Derived terms

Related terms

• malfare
• malo
• malvagio

Adjective

male

1. (archaic) feminine plural of malo (“bad”)

See also

• dolore

Anagrams

• alme
• lame
• mela

Latin

Etymology

From malus (“bad, wicked”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.le/, [?mä???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.le/, [?m??l?]

Adverb

male (comparative p?ius, superlative pessim?)

1. badly
2. wrongly
3. cruelly, wickedly
4. not much; feebly

Derived terms

• maled?c?
• malefaci?
• n?n male

Related terms

• malus

Descendants

References

• male in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• male in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• male in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch m?len, from Old Dutch *malan, from Proto-West Germanic *malan, from Proto-Germanic *malan?.

Verb

male

1. To mill.

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mála and Middle Low German malen

Verb

male (imperative mal, present tense maler, passive males, simple past malte, past participle malt, present participle malende)

1. To paint.

See also

• måle (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mala

Verb

male (imperative mal, present tense maler, passive males, simple past mol or malte, past participle malt, present participle malende)

1. To grind or mill (to make smaller by breaking with a device).
2. To purr (of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented)

Derived terms

• den som kommer først til mølla, får først malt (to mill)
• hvitmalt (painted white)
• maleri (painting)
• male seg inn i et hjørne (to paint)
• maling (paint, painting)
• rødmalt (painted red)
• skjønnmale (to paint)
• umalt (both senses)

References

• “male” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

male (present tense mel, past tense mol, supine male, past participle malen, present participle malande, imperative mal)

1. Alternative form of mala

Etymology 2

Verb

male (present tense malar, past tense mala, past participle mala, passive infinitive malast, present participle malande, imperative mal)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by måle, to paint.

Old French

Alternative forms

• malle

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mala, from Frankish *malha (“leather bag”).

Noun

male f (oblique plural males, nominative singular male, nominative plural males)

1. pack, bag

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: male
  • ? Middle English: male, maile, mayll
    • English: mail
    • Scots: male, mail
  • ?? Irish: mála (or perhaps via English)
• Middle French: malle
  • French: malle
  • ? Portuguese: mala
  • ? Spanish: mala
• Gallo: mol
• Walloon: male (Forrières)

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

male

1. locative singular of mala (“dirt”)

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin male. Compare Italian male.

Adverb

male

1. badly

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

male

1. inflection of mal:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /l?v/, [??v]
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /l?v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-Germanic *lub?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“love, care, desire”).

The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.

The verb is from Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from the noun lufu (“love”), see above.

Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).

Noun

love (countable and uncountable, plural loves)

1. (uncountable) Strong affection.
   1. A profound and caring affection towards someone.
      • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

        He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.

      • 2014, S. Hidden, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God (?ISBN)
   2. Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
      • 1864, Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government:

        The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is [...] the highest of all the Divine commands[.]

   3. A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
   4. A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
      • 2012, Philip Auerswald, The Coming Prosperity (?ISBN):

        For three decades, the average number of miles driven by US motorists increased steadily. Then, in 2007, that steady climb was suddenly halted. [...] What magic caused Americans to temper their longstanding love of the open road?

2. (countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion

     Open the temple gates unto my love.

   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2

     O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!
3. (colloquial, Commonwealth of Nations) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

4. A thing, activity, etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
   • 1997 March, "Faces of Today's Black Woman", in Ebony, volume 52, number 5, page 96:

     But it wasn't until [Theresa M. Claiborne] went to ROTC training camp at the University of California at Berkeley that she discovered that flying was her first love. "Pilots talk about getting bit by the flying bug," she says. "I thought, This is heaven."

5. (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
   • 2013, Ronald Long, Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods, Routledge (?ISBN), page 3:

     The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated.

6. (euphemistic) Sexual activity.
   • 1986, Ben Elton & al., Blackadder II, "Bells":

     —What think you, my lord, of... love?

     —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.

7. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
   • 2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution (?ISBN):

     Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.

8. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
9. Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
   • c. 1810,, Samuel Johnson (in The Works of Samuel Johnson):

     At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; [...]

10. (obsolete) A thin silk material.
    • 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, […]

      Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood.

11. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.

Synonyms

• (darling, sweetheart): baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart
• (term of address): mate, lover, darling, sweetie, sweetheart; see also Thesaurus:lover
• (sexual desire): aphrodisia, carnality; see also Thesaurus:lust
• (sexual activity): coitus, sex, the beast with two backs; see also Thesaurus:copulation
• (instance of being in love): romance

Antonyms

• (strong affection): hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite
• (absence of love): indifference

Translations

See love/translations § Noun.

Verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

1. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

     I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.

   • 2013 February 26, Pink and Nate Ruess, Just Give Me a Reason:

     Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.

2. (transitive) To need, thrive on.

3. (transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
4. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
   • John 3:16

     For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

   • Matthew: 22:37-38

     You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
5. (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.

6. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (have a strong affection for): adore, cherish; see also Thesaurus:love
• (have sexual intercourse with): enjoy, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Antonyms

• hate, despise

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See love/translations § Verb.

See also

• charity

Etymology 2

From Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”), from Proto-Germanic *lub?n? (“to praise, vow”), from *lub? (“praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“to like, love, desire”), *lewb?-.

Verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

1. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
2. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

Etymology 3

Said by some to be from the idea that when one does a thing “for love”, that is for no monetary gain, the word “love” implies "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the French term l’œuf (“the egg”), due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted, though compare the use of duck (reputed to be short for duck's egg) for a zero score at cricket.

Noun

love (uncountable)

1. (racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.

   So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.

   • 2013, Paul McNamee, Game Changer: My Tennis Life

     The next day Agassi came back from two sets to love down to beat Courier in five sets.

2. Nothing; no recompense.
   • 1916, H. Rider Haggard, The Ivory Child

     I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all.

Translations

References

• love at OneLook Dictionary Search
• love in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• love in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• levo, levo-, velo-, vole, voël

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?v?/

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani love.

Noun

love f pl

1. (slang) money

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• See also prachy

Noun

love m

1. vocative singular of lov

Further reading

• love in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??v?/, [?l????], [?l???]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German l?ve, from Proto-Germanic *galaubô, cognate with German Glaube.

Noun

love c

1. (obsolete) trust, faith

   only in the phrase på tro og love (“solemnly”)

References

• “love,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lofa, from Proto-Germanic *(ga)lub?n?, cognate with Swedish lova (“to promise; to praise”), German loben (“to praise”), geloben (“to vow”), Dutch loven (“to praise”).

Verb

love (past tense lovede, past participle lovet)

1. to promise
2. (solemn) to praise

Inflection

References

• “love,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “love,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

love c

1. indefinite plural of lov

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

love

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of loven

Anagrams

• velo, voel

French

Verb

love

1. inflection of lover:
   1. first-person /third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• vélo, vole, volé

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin lupa, feminine of lupus. Compare Venetian lova, French louve.

Pronunciation

Noun

love f (plural lovis)

1. she-wolf

Related terms

• lôf

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?v?/

Verb

love

1. to praise

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Inari Sami

Numeral

love

1. ten

Middle Dutch

Noun

l?ve

1. dative singular of lof

Middle English

Alternative forms

• luve, lufæ, lufe

Etymology

From Old English lufu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?luv(?)/

Noun

love (plural loves)

1. love

Descendants

• English: love
• Scots: luve, lufe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse lofa.

Verb

love (imperative lov, present tense lover, simple past and past participle lova or lovet, present participle lovende)

1. to praise

Verb

love (imperative lov, present tense lover, simple past lova or lovet or lovte or lovde, past participle lova or lovet or lovt or lovd, present participle lovende)

1. to promise

   (as an adjective) det lovede land - the Promised Land

Related terms

• løfte

References

• “love” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

love (present tense lovar or lover, past tense lova or lovde, past participle lova or lovt or lovd, present participle lovande, imperative lov)

1. Alternative form of lova

Noun

love m (definite singular loven, indefinite plural lovar, definite plural lovane)

1. Alternative form of lóve

Anagrams

• vole

Romani

Noun

love

1. plural of lovo
2. money

Descendants

• ? French: lové
• ? Hungarian: lóvé
• ? Romanian: lovea
• ? Russian: ????? (lav??)
• ? Scots: lowie
• ? Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: ?????
  • Latin: lóva
• ? Slovak: lóve

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

love (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of lov

Verb

love (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of loviti