aimer

aimer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
aimant (gerund participle present)
aimant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
aimé (participle past)
aimé (participle past)
aime (first-person indicative present singular)
ɛm (first-person indicative present singular)
aimes (indicative present second-person singular)
aime (indicative present singular third-person)
aimons (first-person indicative plural present)
aimons (first-person indicative plural present)
aimez (indicative plural present second-person)
aimez (indicative plural present second-person)
aiment (indicative plural present third-person)
aimais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
aimais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
aimais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
aimais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
aimait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
aimait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
aimions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
aimions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
aimiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
aimiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
aimaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
aimaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
aimai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
aimai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
aimas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
aimas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
aima (historic indicative past singular third-person)
aima (historic indicative past singular third-person)
aimâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
aimâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
aimâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
aimâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
aimèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
aimèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
aimerai (first-person future indicative singular)
aimeras (future indicative second-person singular)
aimera (future indicative singular third-person)
aimerons (first-person future indicative plural)
aimerez (future indicative plural second-person)
aimeront (future indicative plural third-person)
aimerais (conditional first-person singular)
aimerais (conditional second-person singular)
aimerait (conditional singular third-person)
aimerions (conditional first-person plural)
aimerions (conditional first-person plural)
aimeriez (conditional plural second-person)
aimeriez (conditional plural second-person)
aimeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
aime (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ɛm (first-person present singular subjunctive)
aimes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
aime (present singular subjunctive third-person)
aimions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
aimions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
aimiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
aimiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
aiment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
aimasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
aimasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
aimasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
aimasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
aimât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
aimât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
aimassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
aimassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
aimassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
aimassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
aimassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
aimassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
aime (imperative second-person singular)
aimons (first-person imperative plural)
aimons (first-person imperative plural)
aimez (imperative plural second-person)
aimez (imperative plural second-person)

Saint Dominican Creole French: haimé

From the conjugated forms of Old French amer, from Latin amāre (“to love”).

Donne-moi une raison de t’aimer.

J’aime cet homme-ci plus que tout au monde.

I love this man more than anything in the world.

to love (usually of a person, otherwise the meaning is closer to like)


aimer

aimier (infinitive)
aimant (gerund)
aveir (auxiliary)
aimié (masculine participle past singular)
aimie (feminine participle past singular)
aimiés (masculine participle past plural)
aimies (feminine participle past plural)
aime (indicative present singular)
aimes (indicative present second-person singular)
aime (indicative present singular third-person)
aimoms (first-person indicative plural present)
aimiez (indicative plural present)
aiment (indicative plural present third-person)
aimeis (imperfect indicative singular)
aimeis (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
aimeit (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
aimioms (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
aimiez (imperfect indicative plural)
aimeient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
aimis (indicative preterite singular)
aimis (indicative preterite second-person singular)
aimit (indicative preterite singular third-person)
aimîmes (first-person indicative plural preterite)
aimîtes (indicative plural preterite)
aimîtrent (indicative plural preterite third-person)
aimerai (future indicative singular)
aimeras (future indicative second-person singular)
aimera (future indicative singular third-person)
aimeroms (first-person future indicative plural)
aimerez (future indicative plural)
aimeront (future indicative plural third-person)
aimereis (conditional indicative singular)
aimereis (conditional indicative second-person singular)
aimereit (conditional indicative singular third-person)
aimerioms (conditional first-person indicative plural)
aimeriez (conditional indicative plural)
aimereient (conditional indicative plural third-person)
aime (first-person present singular subjunctive)
aimes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
aime (present singular subjunctive third-person)
aimioms (first-person plural present subjunctive)
aimiez (plural present subjunctive)
aiment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
aimisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
aimisse (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
aimît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
aimisse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
aimissioms (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
aimissiez (imperfect plural subjunctive)
aimissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
aime (imperative singular)
aimoms (first-person imperative plural)
aimiez (imperative plural)

Si l'houme aïme autre mûx que sé au moulin i' mourra de set.

1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 515:

If a man loves others more than himself, he will die of thirst even were he in a mill.


double

en-verb

double (third-person singular simple present doubles, present participle doubling, simple past and past participle doubled)

doubles (present singular third-person)
doubling (participle present)
doubled (participle past)
doubled (past)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.

Was this simply the cover name of an Allied spy-code named the Brass Monkey? […] The possibility that the Brass Monkey himself was "doubling" (with headquarters' approval, of course) is too logical […]

(espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.


double agent

Coordinate term: triple agent

(espionage) A spy who pretends to work for one side, when they are actually working for or passing information to the other.


ghost

en-noun

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst (which was the word for “spirit” as well as “ghost”; the original sense survives in Modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”).
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.


little

little (countable and uncountable, plural littles)

From Middle English litel, from Old English lyttel, lȳtel, from Proto-West Germanic *lūtil, from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“tending to stoop, crouched, little”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to bend, bent, small”), equivalent to lout + -le. Cognate with Dutch luttel, regional German lütt and lützel, Saterland Frisian litje, West Frisian lyts, Low German lütt, lüttje. Related also to Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend low”); and perhaps to Old English lytiġ (“deceitful”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃 (liuts, “deceitful”); compare also Icelandic lítill (“little”), Faroese lítil, Swedish liten, Danish liden, lille, Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (leitils), which appear to have a different root vowel. More at lout.

der

An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.

(countable, BDSM, ABDL) The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.


homo

en-adj

homo (comparative more homo, superlative most homo)

more homo (comparative)
most homo (superlative)

(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Of or pertaining to homosexuality.


libido

la-noun

libīdō f (genitive libīdinis); third declension

libīdō (canonical feminine)
libīdinis (genitive)
libīdō (nominative singular)
libīdinēs (nominative plural)
libīdinis (genitive singular)
libīdinum (genitive plural)
libīdinī (dative singular)
libīdinibus (dative plural)
libīdinem (accusative singular)
libīdinēs (accusative plural)
libīdine (ablative singular)
libīdinibus (ablative plural)
libīdō (singular vocative)
libīdinēs (plural vocative)

→ Armenian: լիբիդո (libido)

→ Catalan: libido

→ Dutch: libido

desctree

→ English: libido
→ Mandarin: 力比多 (lìbǐduō)
→ Irish: libídeo
→ Japanese: リビドー (ribidō)
→ Korean: 리비도 (ribido)

→ Finnish: libido

→ French: libido
→ Turkish: libido

→ German: Libido

→ Galician: libido

→ Hebrew: לִיבִּידוֹ (libido)

→ Hungarian: libidó

→ Italian: libido, libidine

→ Polish: libido

→ Portuguese: libido

→ Romanian: libido

→ Russian: либи́до (libído)

→ Serbo-Croatian: лѝбидо (lìbido)

→ Slovene: lȋbido

→ Spanish: libido

→ Swedish: libido

From Proto-Italic *luβēō (“to desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).

der

Haec tibi est incīdenda lingua, quā vel ēvulsā spīritū ipsō libīdinem tuam lībertās mea refūtābit.

(For that) you must sever this tongue of mine, and even if it is torn out, the freedom in my very breath will confound your wantonness.

desire, fancy, inclination, longing, pleasure, caprice, passion, wantonness


value

en-noun

value (countable and uncountable, plural values)

From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value, feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin valēre (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Italic *walēō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”).

der

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 812a. Value

He does not share his parents' values.

family values

WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

(often plural) That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.


unicorn

From Middle English unicorne, unikorn, from Anglo-Norman unicorne, Old French unicorne, and their source, Latin ūnicornis, from ūnus (“one”) + cornū (“horn”). Other senses from either rarity (e.g., possessing multiple skills) or by physical resemblance to having a horn (e.g., howitzer). The finance sense was coined by American investor Aileen Lee and first used in a 2013 article.

But I also think, “They’re looking for a unicorn — a magical designer who can solve all their problems.” It’s too bad unicorns don’t exist. … I have never met a designer who is an expert in all those skill areas. … Even if you find a unicorn designer with all those skills, actually doing all those things at your company is a huge amount of work.

2011 November 1, Braden Kowitz, “Hiring a designer: hunting the unicorn”, in Google Ventures:

He believes that good data scientists, “otherwise known as unicorn data scientists,” have three types of expertise.

2015 October 3, Gil Press, “These Are The Skills You Need To (Eventually) Become A $240,000+ Unicorn Data Scientist”, in Forbes:

en:someone or something rare and hard to find

en:person with so much multidisciplinary expertise as to be rare

Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.

(business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially a laundry list of three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).

Coordinate term: decacorn

As the price of Web hosting plummeted and PCs and cell phones proliferated, college and grad-school dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page and Sergey Brin could suddenly conjure unicorns on their laptops.

2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:

In May 2016, out of 163 global unicorns, China had 31, with a total valuation of $154 billion or about 26 percent of global unicorn valuation.

2017, Pongsak Hoontrakul, Economic Transformation and Business Opportunities in Asia, Springer, →ISBN, page 273:

(finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.


unicorn

en-verb

unicorn (third-person singular simple present unicorns, present participle unicorning, simple past and past participle unicorned)

unicorns (present singular third-person)
unicorning (participle present)
unicorned (participle past)
unicorned (past)

Since Waze, Soluto and Onavo, both Israeli startups, have had great exits in consumer tech, and Wix “unicorned” through its IPO.

2014 November 3, Itay Hod, “The Airbnb of Home-Cooked Meals”, in Daily Beast:

For eager investors looking to score in a future IPO, the eight still-private martech unicorns might be tempting. That list includes Domo, Slack, Sprinklr, Shopify, and EventBrite, all of which have “unicorned,” or surpassed the billion-dollar valuation mark, in the past year or two.

2015 April 30, John Koetsier, “29 martech unicorns: There are now almost 30 $1B+ marketing technology vendors”, in Venture Beat:

For instance, at the same time as Intercom was announcing its unicorning moment, a young Dublin tech company called Let's Get Checked (letsgetchecked.com) raised €10m in a funding round.

2018 April 1, Adrian Weckler, “Admit it: Irish tech is on the up”, in The Independent:

(finance) To exceed a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars, while solely backed by venture capitalists.


squeeze

From earlier squize, squise (whence also dialectal English squizzen and squeege), first attested around 1600, further origin uncertain; probably an alteration of quease (which is attested since 1550), from Middle English queisen (“to squeeze”), from Old English cwēsan, cwȳsan (“to crush, squeeze”), itself also of unknown origin, perhaps imitative (compare Swedish qväsa, kväsa (“to squeeze, bruise, crush; quell”), Dutch kwetsen (“to injure, hurt”), German quetschen (“to squeeze”)). Or, a blend of obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”) (whence also squash and squish) with quease. Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to press, squeeze”).
The slang expression "to put the squeeze on (someone or something)", meaning "to exert influence", is from 1711. The baseball term "squeeze play" is first recorded 1905. "Main squeeze" ("most important person") is attested from 1896, the specific meaning "one's sweetheart, lover" is attested in 1970s.
The nonstandard strong forms squoze and squozen, attested dialectally since at least the mid-19th century, are by analogy with freeze.

cog

I want to be your main squeeze.

“No, Mona. Her new squeeze is one of Wage's boys.”

1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 9:

He spent nights cruising queer bars near the pad, saw Wiltsie at the dives, but always in the company of his squeeze, a guy he called 'Duane.'

1988, James Ellroy, Dudley Smith Trio: The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz, Random House, →ISBN, page 459:

His young squeeze had just backed out and had not seen the assault on her “sugar daddy” when it happened!

2012, J. Lamar, Tip Tap Toe, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 141:

But even considering that, he might have been a bit more restrained if he hadn't run into his former sexy squeeze, Penny Atieno.

2014, N. Lombardi Jr., Journey Towards a Falling Sun, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

He didn't smile. "Del. I have two girlfriends already. If I wanted a third—"

2023 September 18, HarryBlank, “Hidden Depths”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-25:


blame

English: blame

Scots: blame

From Old French blasme, a deverbal noun from blasmer (“to criticise”).


fetish

en-noun

fetish (countable and uncountable, plural fetishes)

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin factus
Latin -īcius
Latin factīcius
Portuguese feitiçobor.
French fétichebor.
English fetish
Borrowed from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Doublet of factitious.

etymon

The idols and fetishes were being dressed up and whitewashed, receiving sacrifices.

1958, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King:

Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.

ֆետիշ

something believed to possess spiritual or magical powers

This was the trunk of a large wooden doll […] now entirely defaced by a long career of vicarious suffering. […] The last nail had been driven in with a fiercer stroke than usual, for the Fetish on that occasion represented aunt Glegg

1860, George Eliot, chapter VI, in The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons:

(animism, dated) A figure representing the spirit of a deity, human, or animal; an idol or voodoo doll.

I know a guy who has a foot fetish.

a fetish for leather

The first time, I was confused. His needs were obscure to me, and what I could perceive of them seemed to me ridiculous, laughable, like a fetish for lace-up shoes.

1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 163:

(countable, uncountable) Sexual attraction to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body.

ֆետիշ

something nonsexual which arouses sexual desire


heterosexual

ca-adj

heterosexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural heterosexuals)

heterosexuals (feminine masculine plural)


heterosexual

ca-noun

heterosexual m or f by sense (plural heterosexuals)


heterosexual

gl-adj

heterosexual m or f (plural heterosexuais)


heterosexual

gl-noun

heterosexual m or f by sense (plural heterosexuais)


heterosexual

ro-adj

heterosexual m or n (feminine singular heterosexuală, masculine plural heterosexuali, feminine and neuter plural heterosexuale)

heterosexuală (feminine singular)
heterosexuali (masculine plural)
heterosexuale (feminine neuter plural)
heterosexual (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
heterosexuală (feminine indefinite singular)
heterosexuali (indefinite masculine singular)
heterosexuale (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
heterosexualul (definite masculine neuter singular)
heterosexuala (definite feminine singular)
heterosexualii (definite masculine singular)
heterosexualele (definite feminine neuter plural)
heterosexuale (feminine indefinite singular)
heterosexualului (definite masculine neuter singular)
heterosexualei (definite feminine singular)
heterosexualelor (definite masculine singular)
heterosexualilor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Borrowed from French hétérosexuel. Equivalent to hetero- + sexual.


heterosexual

es-adj

heterosexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural heterosexuales)

heterosexuales (feminine masculine plural)


heterosexual

es-noun

heterosexual m or f by sense (plural heterosexuales)


affaire de cœur

fr-noun

affaire de cœur f (plural affaires de cœur)

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matter of the heart
matters of the heart

affair of the heart
affairs of the heart

matter of the heart, affair of the heart (matter relating to one's love life)


affectionate

en-adj

affectionate (comparative more affectionate, superlative most affectionate)

more affectionate (comparative)
most affectionate (superlative)

/əˈfɛkʃənət/

Partly from Latin affectionatus, partly from affection + -ate. Doublet of aficionado.

(obsolete) Eager; passionate; strongly inclined toward something.


affectionate

head

affectionate (comparative mair affectionate, superlative maist affectionate)

mair affectionate (comparative)
maist affectionate (superlative)


agape

en-noun

agape (countable and uncountable, plural agapae or agapai)

(countable) A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist.


agape

Learned borrowing from Latin agapē. Doublet of agapa.

(Christianity) agape (love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist)


agape

ágapé (canonical)
agapé (canonical)
ᜀᜄᜉᜒ (Baybayin)

[ˌʔaː.ɣɐˈpɛ]

Borrowed from Spanish ágape; from Latin agapē, from Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē).


agent

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

4 June 2016, Press Association, Ronald Koeman’s agent says Dutchman has agreed terms with Everton
Ronald Koeman has agreed a deal with Everton to become their new manager, his agent has reportedly told Dutch media. The agent Rob Jansen said, according to the popular Voetbal International website, that it was now down to Southampton and Everton to agree a compensation package for the Dutchman, who has a year remaining on his contract at St Mary’s.

en:person who finds and arranges work for another

A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.


agent

csb-noun

agent m inan (female equivalent agentka)

(espionage) agent (someone who works for an intelligence agency)


agent

pl-noun

agent m pers (female equivalent agentka, diminutive agencik or agenciak)

agentka (feminine)
agencik (diminutive)
agenciak (diminutive)
agent (nominative singular)
agenci (nominative plural)
agenty (derogatory nominative plural)
agenta (genitive singular)
agentów (genitive plural)
agentowi (dative singular)
agentom (dative plural)
agenta (accusative singular)
agentów (accusative plural)
agentem (instrumental singular)
agentami (instrumental plural)
agencie (locative singular)
agentach (locative plural)
agencie (singular vocative)
agenci (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Agent, from French agent, from Middle French agent, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agens. First attested in 1609.

(espionage) officer, peeper, secret agent


homosexuality

en-noun

homosexuality (usually uncountable, plural homosexualities)

/ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)sɛkʃʊˈælɪti/

From homosexual + -ity, equivalent to homo- + sexuality and after the model of German Homosexualität, coined by journalist Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1869, and French homosexualité, attested in 1891.

Great diminution or complete absence of sexual feeling for the opposite sex, with substitution of sexual feeling and instinct for the same sex. (Homo-sexuality, or contrary sexual instinct).

1892, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, translated by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, Psychopathia Sexualis, page 185:

Some of the experts have gone into the question of homosexuality with great care, and advanced sundry learned and scientific theories in regard to that abnormal condition.

1892 April 2, “Hereditary Insanity: This is What Dr. Comstock Says Alice Mitchell Has”, in Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, Memphis, Tenn., page 1:

Of the dozen or so surviving articles, squibs, and letters to the editor, the most remarkable appeared in the Whip and Satirist’s February 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a cabal of gay men in New York's otherwise wholesome nightscape of brothels and riots. Moreover it identified the spider who minced so delicately along the wide-flung strands of the sodomitical web. "There is not one so degraded as this Captain Collins, the King of the Sodomites." He was a foreigner, an Englishman, in the long tradition of blaming homosexuality on the influence of aliens. Among the syndicate of perverts, the writer announced, "we find no Americans as yet—they are all Englishmen or French" (the English called homosexuality the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip it was the French and English vice).

2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133:

The state of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex attraction between males.


heterosexuality

heterosexuality (usually uncountable, plural heterosexualities)

From heterosexual + -ity or hetero- + sexuality.

The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the opposite sex.


bisexuality

bisexuality (countable and uncountable, plural bisexualities)

(of humans or other animals) The state of being sexually or romantically attracted to members of either sex or gender.

1926, Dorothy E. Newton, The Bisexuality of Individual Strains of Coprinus Rostrupianus:

Recall from earlier in this paper that H. longicornis consists of obligatory bisexual diploid races (20+XX 0; 20+X) […] and variance is obscured because of the simultaneous variables of method of reproduction (bisexuality vs. thelytoky) and […]

1983, Entomological Society of America, Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America:

(chiefly botany) The state of being bisexual (“having both male and female parts or roles”).


lesbianism

lesbianism (countable and uncountable, plural lesbianisms)

Because all Asari present as female and use female pronouns, the deadly sexual nature of Ardat-Yakshi may reflect the continued fear of lesbianism that persists among many in human society.

2018, Alexandra M. Lucas, “From Smoldering Justicar to Blue-Skinned Space Babe: Asari Sexuality in Mass Effect”, in Heidi McDonald, editor, Digital Love: Romance and Sexuality in Video Games, CRC Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72:

Female homosexuality; the state of a woman being sexually attracted to other women.


bisexual

ca-adj

bisexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural bisexuals)


bisexual

ca-noun

bisexual m or f by sense (plural bisexuals)


bisexual

ro-adj

bisexual m or n (feminine singular bisexuală, masculine plural bisexuali, feminine and neuter plural bisexuale)

bisexuală (feminine singular)
bisexuali (masculine plural)
bisexuale (feminine neuter plural)
bisexual (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
bisexuală (feminine indefinite singular)
bisexuali (indefinite masculine singular)
bisexuale (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
bisexualul (definite masculine neuter singular)
bisexuala (definite feminine singular)
bisexualii (definite masculine singular)
bisexualele (definite feminine neuter plural)
bisexuale (feminine indefinite singular)
bisexualului (definite masculine neuter singular)
bisexualei (definite feminine singular)
bisexualelor (definite masculine singular)
bisexualilor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Borrowed from French bisexuel. Equivalent to bi- + sexual.


bisexual

ro-noun

bisexual m (plural bisexuali, feminine equivalent bisexuală)

bisexuali (plural)
equivalent bisexuală (feminine)
bisexual (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bisexualul (accusative definite nominative singular)
bisexuali (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bisexualii (accusative definite nominative plural)
bisexual (indefinite singular)
bisexualului (definite singular)
bisexuali (indefinite singular)
bisexualilor (definite plural)
bisexualule (singular vocative)
bisexualilor (vocative)


bisexual

es-adj

bisexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural bisexuales)


bisexual

es-noun

bisexual m or f by sense (plural bisexuales)


sexual preference

en-noun

sexual preference (countable and uncountable, plural sexual preferences)

My family has shut me out from their lives because of my sexual preference.

1986 December 7, Tommy Griffis, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 14:

Sexual orientation
sexual orientation#English


poly

Coordinate term: mono

Whether the family is poly, L.G.B.T.Q. or another minority, such as a religious one, coming out is very much a personal decision.

2020 August 4, Cynthia McKelvey, “The Challenges of Polyamorous Parenting”, in The New York Times:


single

Unadapted borrowing from English single.


constellation

PIE word
 *ḱóm
From Middle English constellacioun, constillacioun (“(astrology) position of the moon or a planet in relation to the ascendant sign of the zodiac; horoscope; (astronomy) formation of fixed stars, constellation; (astronomy) elevation or position of the sun”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French constellation (modern French constellation), or directly from its etymon Late Latin cōnstēllātiōnem, the accusative singular of cōnstēllātiō (“collection of stars supposed to exert an influence upon human affairs, constellation”), from Latin con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several objects) + stēlla (“star; meteor; planet”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”)) + -ātiō (suffix forming nouns).

nb...

constelacioun, constellacion, constellacyon, constellacyoun, constillacion, constillacione, constillacioune, constillatioun, constollacion, constolacioun

sterrebeeld

arbitrary formation of stars perceived as a figure or pattern, or a division of the sky including it

rykelmä

configuration or grouping of related things

But alas such peruerse constellation nowe reigneth ouer men, that where some be aptely and naturally disposed to amitie, and fyndeth one, in similitude of studie and maners, equall to his expectation, and therfore kendeleth a feruent loue towarde that persone, puttinge all his ioye and delite in the praise and auauncement of him that he loueth, it hapneth that he which is loued, beinge promoted in honour, either of purpose neglecteth his frende, therby suppressynge libertie of speche or familiar resorte; or els esteming his mynde with his fortune onely, and nat with the suertie of frendship, hideth from him the secretes of his harte, and either trusteth no man, or els him whome prosperous fortune hath late brought in acquaintaunce.

1531, Thomas Elyot, “The Diuision of Ingratitude and the Dispraise therof”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 2nd book, pages 188–189:

[H]e was born under the constellation that gives a man skill, riches, and integrity, whatever that constellation may be, which is of the less consequence because babies can't choose their own horoscopes, and, indeed, if they could, there might be an inconvenient rush of babies at particular epochs.

1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “First Impressions”, in Romola. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book I, page 72:

The configuration of planets at a given time (especially a person's birth), as believed to affect events on Earth, or used for determining a horoscope.


fall in love

en-verb

fall in love (third-person singular simple present falls in love, present participle falling in love, simple past fell in love, past participle fallen in love)

falls in love (present singular third-person)
falling in love (participle present)
fell in love (past)
fallen in love (participle past)

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влю́бвам се

to come to have feelings of intense liking

I fell in love with him the moment I first saw him.

Have you ever fallen in love?

It only takes a minute girl / To fall in love

1975, Brian Potter, Dennis Lambert (lyrics and music), “It Only Takes a Minute”, in In the City, performed by Tavares:

Oh, Ophelia / You've been on my mind, girl, since the flood / Oh, Ophelia / Heaven help a fool who falls in love

2016 February 5, Wesley Schultz and Jeremy Fraites, “Ophelia”, in Cleopatra, performed by The Lumineers:

Often, I am upset / That I cannot fall in love, but I guess / This avoids the stress of falling out of it

2019, Cavetown (lyrics and music), “Home”:

(intransitive, of a person, animate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of love, particularly romantic love.


necrophilia

en-noun

necrophilia (countable and uncountable, plural necrophilias)

/ˌnɛkɹə(ʊ)ˈfɪlɪə/

From necro- + -philia. From necro- (Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós, “corpse, dead”)) + -philia (Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “affection”)), after German Nekrophilie (in Krafft-Ebing 1887).

uder

(sexuality) A pathological attraction to dead bodies.

(medicine) A pathological fascination with death.


lover

→ German: Lover

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

[…]loue is blinde, and louers cannot ſee / The pretty follies that themſelues commit,[…]

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi], page 170, column 2:

Well there's a wide wide world of noble causes / And lovely landscapes to discover / But all I really want to do right now / Is find another lover

1976, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Song For Sharon”, in Hejira:

This is for the lover in you (take this ring) / This ring (It means I'll always be true) / This is (how we'll start love anew) This time (were gonna last forever)

1980, Shalamar (lyrics and music), “This Is For The Lover In You”, in Three For Love:

Now, there's one in California who's been cursing my name / 'Cause I found me a better lover in the UK, hey, hey / Until I made my getaway

2014 September 23, Elle King, Dave Bassett, “Ex's & Oh's”, in Love Stuff, performed by Elle King:

We can only hurt each other the way that lovers can / So where do we go, where do we hide now?

2016, David Boulter, Stuart A. Staples (lyrics and music), “Like Only Lovers Can”, in The Waiting Room, performed by Tindersticks:

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

szerelem (only with possessive suffixes in this sense)


любовник

ru-noun+

любо́вник • (ljubóvnik) m anim (genitive любо́вника, nominative plural любо́вники, genitive plural любо́вников, feminine любо́вница, diminutive любо́вничек)

любо́вник (canonical)
ljubóvnik (romanization)
любо́вника (genitive)
любо́вники (nominative plural)
любо́вников (genitive plural)
любо́вница (feminine)
любо́вничек (diminutive)
любо́вник (nominative singular)
любо́вники (nominative plural)
любо́вника (genitive singular)
любо́вников (genitive plural)
любо́внику (dative singular)
любо́вникам (dative plural)
любо́вника (accusative singular)
любо́вников (accusative plural)
любо́вником (instrumental singular)
любо́вниками (instrumental plural)
любо́внике (prepositional singular)
любо́вниках (plural prepositional)

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moral

From Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”)
(first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).

der

a candidate with strong morals

(chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.


jailbait

en-noun

jailbait (usually uncountable, plural jailbaits)

From jail + bait, from the fact that statutory rape can result, for the adult committing it, in incarceration.

"The first time she modelled for Edward Weston, in March 1934, Charis Wilson knew she didn’t look good. At 20 she was “a piece of jailbait”, a mere child, especially with the stumpy plaits into which she sometimes twisted her hair."

2009, The Economist, Charis Wilson, model and writer, died on November 20th, aged 95:

(slang) A sexually mature person below, or appearing to be below, the legal age of consent, who is regarded, usually by an adult, as being sexually attractive and/or seductive.

禍水妞 /祸水妞

person below the age of consent for sexual activity

malebait

an underage male perceived to be attractive by adult females


bonus

la-noun

bonus m (genitive bonī); second declension

bonī (genitive)
bonus (nominative singular)
bonī (nominative plural)
bonī (genitive singular)
bonōrum (genitive plural)
bonō (dative singular)
bonīs (dative plural)
bonum (accusative singular)
bonōs (accusative plural)
bonō (ablative singular)
bonīs (ablative plural)
bone (singular vocative)
bonī (plural vocative)

From Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, further etymology uncertain. Possibly cognate with beō (“to bless, gladden”). Possible roots include:
* Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to join, fit together”); compare Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “to do, make”) and Ancient Greek δύναμαι (dúnamai, “to be able”).
* Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-u, from *deh₃- (“to give”).
* Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”)
* Proto-Indo-European *dwey- (“to fear”), source of Ancient Greek δέος (déos), δεινός (deinós), δειλός (deilós).
Compare the change from duellum to bellum (“war”).


morality

en-noun

morality (countable and uncountable, plural moralities)

amorality

antonym(s) of “recognition of or obedience to the rules of right conduct”

From Anglo-Norman moralité, Middle French moralité, from Late Latin mōrālitās (“manner, characteristic, character”), from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”), from mōs (“manner, custom”). equivalent to moral + -ity.

uder

Robinson sums up the conclusion of the first part of his book as being "that the task of the moralist is to set in their proper relation to one another the three different types of moral judgment . . . and so reveal the field of morality as a single self-coherent system".

1953, J. Kemp, “Review of The Claim of Morality by N.H.G. Robinson”, in The Philosophical Quarterly, volume 3, number 12, page 278:

(uncountable, rare) Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.


like

en-verb

like (third-person singular simple present likes, present participle liking, simple past and past participle liked)

likes (present singular third-person)
liking (participle present)
liked (participle past)
liked (past)

Jersey Dutch: lāike

Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), German Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic líka (“to like”).
Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).

inh

падаба́цца (padabácca) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

plaĉi al (intransitive, the person who likes is marked with the preposition al)

dáma (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

hóva (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

líka (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

falla (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

plaire (à)

gefallen (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

מָצָא חֵן בְּעֵינֵי (matzá ẖen b'enéy, literally “found grace in the eyes of”) (with subject and object reversed)

tetszik (with the person or thing liked in the dative)

podobać się impf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

нра́виться impf (nrávitʹsja) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case) (e.g. мне нра́вится (mne nrávitsja) + nominative case - I like + object)

сви́ђати се impf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

svíđati se impf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

zespódobaś se pf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

all above + indirect object: ལ་དོན (la don) (oblique/dative-locative case) (ལ/-ར (la / -ra))

подо́батися (podóbatysja) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

געפֿעלן (gefeln) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.

― Enju: “Apparently when you like someone, you start talking like them.”

2016 December 19, Moe! Ninja Girls, Japan: NTT Solmare, iOS, Android, scene: Season 1, Enju Ending:

To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.

gefallen + dat (with subject and object reversed)

tetszik (with the person or thing liked in the dative case)

Would you like a cigarette?

We could go to the museum if you like.

I don't like to disturb him when he's working.

(with 'would' and in certain other phrases) To want, desire. See also would like.


like

Adjective from Middle English lik, lyk, lich, like, from Old English ġelīċ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr, glíkr; both from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar, same”). Related to alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly. Cognate with West Frisian like (“like; as”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”) Swedish lik (“like, similar”)
Adverb from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, from Old English ġelīċe (“likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”) and Old Norse líka (“also, likewise”); both from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like, similar”).
Conjunction from Middle English like, lyke, lik, lyk, from the adverb Middle English like.
Preposition from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, lijc, liih (“similar to, like, equal to, comparable with”), from Middle English like (adjective) and like (adverb).

der

Popcorn costs something like $10 dollars at the movies.


mendacious

en-adj

mendacious (comparative more mendacious, superlative most mendacious)

more mendacious (comparative)
most mendacious (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”).

(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.


mono

mono (comparative more mono, superlative most mono)

more mono (comparative)
most mono (superlative)

Coordinate term: poly


vice

English: vice

Scots: vice

Borrowed from Old French vice, visse, from Latin vitium.

Vice, iniquity, sinful behaviour; absence of virtue or morality:

A vice; a general tendency or action that is morally bad.

A specific example of immoral or sinful behaviour.

A sickness, disease or malady; a deleterious process effecting something.


pedophilia

en-noun

pedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural pedophilias)

Adapted from German Pädophilie, bringing its spelling into conformity with pedo- (“child”) + -philia. Compare the Byzantine Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía, “love of children”).

cog

sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children

تَحَرُّش جِنْسِيّ بِٱلأَطْفَال (taḥarruš jinsiyy bi-l-ʔaṭfāl, literally “child sexual harassment”)

کَم عُمْر بَچّوں سے جِنْسی میلان کی بِیماری (kam 'umr baccõ se jinsī melān kī bīmārī, literally “sexual orientation disorder with young children”)

As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia.

2007, Margaret Mary Wright, Judicial decision making in child sexual abuse cases, page 122:

Sometimes a man with pedophilia is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...]

2009, Ann Kring, Sheri Johnson, Gerald C. Davison, Abnormal Psychology:

Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent children under 10 years old.

pedofilia

(medicine) sexual feeling or desire by adults or older adolescents towards prepubescent children

Fifteen months later, a committee of the congregation found that he had sexually abused several boys within the congregation. […] The fact that Alger committed pedophilia at the age of thirty-four casts a shadow over his subsequent yearning for relationships with boys and young men, but there is no evidence of any later misconduct.

1998, Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

Entire books have been written about the role of scandal in US politics (Garment, 1992). Offenses include smoking marijuana, hiring illegal aliens, plagiarizing, sexually harassing others, engaging in pedophilia, […]

2005, Carol Weiss Lewis, Stuart Gilman, The ethics challenge in public service: a problem-solving guide, 2nd edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 88:

It's quite another (a bad idea) to expect amateurs to figure out who is telling the truth about Iraq, or which priests have committed pedophilia.

2007, Todd Oppenheimer, “Read All about It -- but Where, Exactly?”, in SFGate, Hearst Communications:

(by extension, proscribed) Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation.


hebephilia

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From hebe- (“relating to youth”) + -philia.

sexual relationship between a man and an adolescent boy

This finding, if confirmed, may offer a useful lead for research in heterosexual pedophilia or hebephilia (a preference for pubescent girls)

1975 Forensic Science Abstracts - Volume 1 - Page 216

paraphilias are included: hebephilia (adolescent girls) and ephebophilia (adolescent boys), although the dynamics of these latter two may be closer to those of adult attraction.

1989 Robert H. Rencken Intervention Strategies for Sexual Abuse page 10

(dated) A sexual preference for adolescent girls.


ephebophilia

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From Ancient Greek ἔφηβος (éphēbos, “adolescent”) + φιλία (philía, “love, friendship”). By surface analysis, ephebe + -philia.

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The assertion, often naïvely made, that in the Homeric poems there is as yet no trace of the love of boys to be met with, and that it was a phenomenon which first appeared during the so-called decadence is, in my opinion, false, for I have already shown in an earlier work (in Anthropophyteia, ix, pp. 291 ff.) that the bond of friendship between Achilles and Patroclus (the most important passages are Il., xxiii, 84; ix, 186, 663; xviii, 22 ff., 65, 315, 334; xix, 209, 315), however ideal it was, yet contains a high percentage of homoerotic sentiment and action; that the Homeric epos also abounds in undoubted traces of ephebophilia, and that no one in the ancient times of Greece ever supposed otherwise.

1932, Hans Licht [pseudonym; Paul Brandt], translated by J. H. Freese, “[Male Homosexuality] History of Greek Love of Boys”, in Lawrence H. Dawson, editor, Sexual Life in Ancient Greece, London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. […], published 1933, part II, pages 449–450:

1981 Brian Taylor, PhD Perspectives on Paedophilia page XIII
Thus, paedophilia, denoting sexual interest in pre-pubertal children, can be distinguished from paederasty, indicating sexual interest in pre-pubertal boys alone. These two together could then be distinguished from ephebophilia, denoting sexual preference for post-pubertal and adolescent boys.

Freund, "Male Homosexuality," p. 44 .. "Paedophilia is the erotic preference for children, ephebophilia that for male ... pubescents."

1983 Robin Scroggs The New Testament and Homosexuality: Contextual Background for Contemporary Debate page 148

2006 Looking at Ephebophilia through the Lens of Cleric Sexual Abuse from volume 13 issue 4 of "Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity"

The term ephebophilia seems to have been coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in his Wesen der Liebe (1906), where he applied to sexually mature youths from puberty up to the age of 20; in his 1914 magnum opus, Die Homosexualitat des Mannes und des Weibes, Hirschfeld specified the range of love objects as from "the beginning to the completion of maturity, so approximately ages 14-21." The German research estimated that 45 of all homosexuals were ephebophiles. For women, he used the term "parthenophiles."
The authors propose that the diagnosis of ephebophilia, which is a sexual attraction to pubescent or post-pubescent males, is better suited to the sample of Catholic priests in the John Jay study.

2016, Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, page 361:

(dated) A sexual preference for adolescent boys.


รัก

rák (romanization)
การรัก (abstract-noun)

From a Mon-Khmer language; ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *r(a)k (“to love; beloved, dear”). Cognate with Lao ຮັກ (hak), Isan ฮัก, Northern Thai ᩁᩢ᩠ᨠ, Khün ᩁᩢ᩠ᨠ, Lü ᦣᧅ (hak), Khamti ꩭၢက်ႉ, Shan ႁၵ်ႉ (hâ̰k), Tai Nüa ᥞᥐ (hak). Outside Tai-Kadai, cognate with Khmer រាក់ (rĕək, “friendly, cordial, pleasant; intimate, affectionate”), as in រាក់ទាក់ (reak-teak, “friendly, warm, pleasant”). The Proto-Mon-Khmer root possibly represents an allofam of the proto-root *mr[a]k, *rmr[a]k (compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *mak ~ *ma(a)k (“to like, love”)), whence Khmer ម្រក់ (mrŭək, “girl's friend of same sex, man's friend's wife”), and possibly Thai มลัก (má-lák, “to love, to like”).

cog

1563, “จารึกวัดพระธาตุศรีสองรัก ๑”, in ฐานข้อมูลจารึกในประเทศไทย, Bangkok: ศูนย์มานุษยวิทยาสิรินธร (องค์การมหาชน), published 2019-07-24, retrieved 2019-09-17:
ครั้นอ่านสัจอธิษฐานทั้ง ๒ ฝ่ายแล้ว พระสงฆ์แลอำมาตย์ทั้ง ๒ ฝ่ายก็หลั่งน้ำสัจจะในมหาปฐพี...มีเสน่หาไมตรีรักแพงกันเท่าเสี้ยงมหาปฐพี
krán àan sàt-jà à-tít-tǎan táng · sɔ̌ɔng · fàai lɛ́ɛo · prá sǒng lɛɛ am-màat táng · sɔ̌ɔng · fàai gɔ̂ làng náam sàt-jà nai má-hǎa bpà-tà-pii ... mii sà-nèe-hǎa mai-dtrii rák pɛɛng gan tâo sîiang má-hǎa bpà-tà-pii
Once both sides had pronounced the wishes of sincerity, the holy clergy and nobility [from] both sides then poured the water of truth onto the great ground...[with the intention] to extend affectionate amity [towards each other and to] dearly love each other until the Great Earth perisheth.

18th century, เจ้าฟ้าธรรมธิเบศไชยเชษฐ์สุริยวงศ์, “บทเห่เรือ พระนิพนธ์เจ้าฟ้าธรรมธิเบศร”, in ประชุมกาพย์เห่เรือ, Bangkok: โรงพิมพ์โสภณพิพรรฒธนากร, published 1917, retrieved 2019-09-17:
ขาวสุดพุดจีบจีน เจ้ามีสีนพี่มีศักดิ์ ทั้งวังเขาชังนัก แต่พี่รักเจ้าคนเดียว
kǎao sùt pút-jìip jiin · jâao mii sǐin pîi mii sàk · táng wang kǎo chang nák · dtɛ̀ɛ pîi rák jâao kon diao
[My] whitest Chinese pinwheel, thou art of wealth, I am of worth. Though they, [the people] throughout the palace, hate [thee that] much, I [am] the only one that loveth thee.

1795, “พระราชพงศาวดารกรุงศรีอยุธยา ฉบับพันจันทนุมาศ (เจิม)”, in ประชุมพงศาวดาร ฉบับกาญจนาภิเษก เล่ม ๓, Bangkok: กรมศิลปากร, กองวรรณกรรมและประวัติศาสตร์, published 1999, →ISBN, page 246:
ถ้าสมเด็จพระเชษฐาเรา...รักช้าง ๒ ช้างยิ่งกว่าทางพระราชไมตรี ก็เห็นว่า กรุงหงสาวดีกับกรุงศรีอยุธยาขาดกัน
tâa sǒm-dèt prá chêet-tǎa rao ... rák cháang · sɔ̌ɔng · cháang yîng gwàa taang prá râat-chá mai-dtrii · gɔ̂ hěn wâa · grung hǒng-sǎa-wá-dii gàp grung sǐi à-yút-tá-yaa kàat-gan
Should His Divine Majesty the Elder Brother of Ours...love the two elephants more than the ties of sacred royal amity [betwixt us], then meseemeth that the Realm of Hongsawadi and the Realm of Si Ayutthaya are through.

1965, สุจิตต์ วงษ์เทศ, “Untitled”, in บันทึกไว้ในวงวรรณเรื่องของวรรคทอง, Bangkok: สมาคมนักกลอนแห่งประเทศไทย, published 2003-06-09, retrieved 2019-09-17:
เมื่อรักกันไม่ได้ก็ไม่รัก ไม่เห็นจักเกรงการสถานไหน ไม่รักกูกูก็จักไม่รักใคร เอ๊ะน้ำตากูไหลทำไมฤๅ
mʉ̂ʉa rák gan mâi dâai gɔ̂ mâi rák · mâi hěn jàk greeng gaan sà-tǎan nǎi · mâi rák guu guu gɔ̂ jàk mâi rák krai · é nám-dtaa guu lǎi tam-mai rʉʉ
When [we] can't love each other, then [I just] won't love [you]. [I] don't think [I] have to fear anything whatsoever. [When] no one loves me, I just won't love anyone. Eh, why am I shedding tears?

to love, to have affection (for), to adore, to admire, to cherish, to be fond (of); to prefer, to favour.


รัก

Circa 1968, เอก หทัย, “ขอ”, in บันทึกไว้ในวงวรรณเรื่องของวรรคทอง, Bangkok: สมาคมนักกลอนแห่งประเทศไทย, published 2003-06-09, retrieved 2019-09-17:
หนึ่งจะมีรักใหม่อย่าให้รู้ สองจะอยู่กับใครอย่าให้เห็น ให้ฉันเถิดขอร้องสองประเด็น แล้วจะเป็นผู้แพ้ที่แท้จริง
nʉ̀ng jà mii rák mài yàa hâi rúu · sɔ̌ɔng jà yùu gàp krai yàa hâi hěn · hâi chǎn tə̀ət kɔ̌ɔ-rɔ́ɔng sɔ̌ɔng bprà-den · lɛ́ɛo jà bpen pûu-pɛ́ɛ tîi-tɛ́ɛ-jing
First, [if you] are going to have a new love, don't let [me] know. Second, [if you] are going to be with someone [else], don't let [me] see. Grant me [these] two things [I'm] asking [of you, and] then [I] will [agree to] be the true loser.

love, affection, adoration, admiration, cherishment, fondness; preference, favour.


รัก

rák (romanization)
ความรัก (abstract-noun)

2019 September 15, “หนุ่มสตูลคลุ้มคลั่งไล่แทงตาย ๑ เจ็บ ๓ เมียรักก็ไม่เว้น”, in สยามรัฐ, Bangkok: สยามรัฐ, retrieved 2019-09-17:
หนุ่มสตูลคลุ้มคลั่งไล่แทงตาย ๑ เจ็บ ๓ เมียรักก็ไม่เว้น
nùm sà-dtuun klúm-klâng lâi tɛɛng dtaai · nʉ̀ng · jèp · sǎam · miia rák gɔ̂ mâi wén
A Satun lad had gone out of his mind [and] run around stabbing [people], killing one, injuring three. [Even his] beloved wife was not spared.

loved; beloved; adored; admired; cherished; dear; darling.


รัก

Uncertain. Cognate with Lao ຮັກ (hak). Compare Sanskrit आर्क (ārka, “crown flower”), Pali akka.

ต้น ต้น#Thai

Calotropis gigantea
Calotropis gigantea#Translingual

(botany) (ต้น~) crown flower: the plant Calotropis gigantea of the family Apocynaceae.


coup de foudre

fr-noun

coup de foudre m (plural coups de foudre)

Near-synonym: coup de cœur

Quand j’ai fait la connaissance de Henri, ç’a été le coup de foudre!

When I met Henri, it was love at first sight!


lufu

lufu (nominative singular)
lufa (nominative plural)
lufe (nominative plural)
lufe (accusative singular)
lufa (accusative plural)
lufe (accusative plural)
lufe (genitive singular)
lufa (genitive plural)
lufe (dative singular)
lufum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: love
English: love
Scots: luve, lufe
Yola: loove

From Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō. Cognate with Old Frisian luve, Old High German luba, Gothic *𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*lubō).

Sēo sōðe lufu nǣfre ne ātēoraþ.


Liebe

Liebe (genitive)
Lieben (plural)
Liebe (nominative singular)
Lieben (definite nominative plural)
Liebe (genitive singular)
Lieben (definite genitive plural)
Liebe (dative singular)
Lieben (dative definite plural)
Liebe (accusative singular)
Lieben (accusative definite plural)

Audio

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From Middle High German liebe (“joy, affection, kindliness”), from Old High German liob, lioba (“fortune, health, pleasantness, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *leubu (“love”). Related with Old High German luba, English love (from Proto-Germanic *lubō).

inh

1787, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont
Und konnte ich fürchten, daß diese unglückliche Liebe das kluge Klärchen so bald hinreißen würde? Ich muß es nun tragen, daß meine Tochter—

And could I imagine, that this unhappy love would so soon carry away the prudent little Klara? I must endure it now, that my daughter

(uncountable) love (tender feeling of affection)


pal

en-verb

pal (third-person singular simple present pals, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

pals (present singular third-person)
palling (participle present)
palled (participle past)
palled (past)

PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
Borrowed from Angloromani pal (“brother, friend”), from Romani phral (“brother”), from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ, “brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, frater, friar, and vai.

doublet

As an adult, she moved to New York and palled with trip-hop artist Tricky, who signed her to his own label.

2012 November 26, Evan Schlansky, “Song Premiere: Ife Sanchez Mora, Hopeful Heart”, in American Songwriter:

There were pictures of Garcia flashing diamond mouth grills. Spewing out a Vesuvius-amount of smoke. Showing off a riot of body tattoos. Aiming guns. Palling with superstars like Lil Wayne and Chris Brown. […]

2017 August 21, Kyle Swenson, “The rise and fall of Miami’s ‘CEO of Purple Drank’”, in The Washington Post:

In the trial, they showed photographs and videos of Unsworth being congratulated by the UK prime minister, palling with Thai government officials, and smiling while Prince William pinned him with an MBE, an appointment to the Order of the British Empire.

2020 January 30, Ryan Mac, “How Tesla CEO Elon Musk Won His "Pedo Guy" Trial”, in BuzzFeed News:

Greco also palled with Stone’s friend “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis, who was convicted of prostitution-related activities and selling prescription drugs.

2022 March 4, Graham Rayman, “Roger Stone said he never saw NYPD cop bodyguard with a gun or shield — video shows otherwise”, in New York Daily News:


fancy

From Middle English fansy, fantsy, a contraction of fantasy, fantasye, fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Medieval Latin fantasia, from Late Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fantasia, fantasy, phantasia, and phantasy.

doublet

And they’ve taken a fancy to me, Aunt said. Kitto and the others. That means they like me.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 36:

He took a fancy to her.


Romeo

From Italian Romeo, from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos, “Roman”).

der

(espionage) A spy specialised in seducing persons of interest, in particular a man targeting women.


eromenos

/ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erṓmenos, “beloved”).

lbor

Coordinate term: erastes

In his early twenties the young aristocratic lover (erastes) took a teen-aged youth, the eromenos or beloved, to bond with and train before going on at about age thirty to matrimony and fatherhood.

1996, William Armstrong Percy III, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, University of Illinois Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 1:

(historical) An adolescent boy in Ancient Greece who was courted by an older man, or was in an erotic relationship with him.

éromène

the younger partner in a pederastic relationship


erastes

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”).

Coordinate term: eromenos

In regard to the boys (erōmenos) involved in ancient Greek pederasty, Dover (1978:52) asked: “What does the eromenos get out of submission to his erastēs?”

2002, Stephen O Murray, Pacific Homosexualities, iUniverse, page 80:

(historical) An adult man in Ancient Greece who courted or was in a pederastic relationship with an adolescent boy.

éraste

the older partner in a pederastic relationship


flamma

head

flamma (present flammar, preterite flammade, supine flammat, imperative flamma)

flammar (present)
flammade (preterite)
flammat (supine)
flamma (imperative)
flamma (active infinitive)
flammat (active supine)
flamma (active imperative)
flammen (active archaic imperative plural)
flammar (active indicative present)
flammade (active indicative past)
flamma (active archaic indicative plural present)
flammade (active archaic indicative past plural)
flamme (active dated present subjunctive)
flammade (active dated past subjunctive)
flammande (participle present)


polyandry

en-noun

polyandry (usually uncountable, plural polyandries)

The having of a plurality of husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a woman to more than one man, or the practice of having several husbands, at the same time.

(zoology) The mating pattern whereby a female copulates with plural males.

Sexual relations with multiple males, by a female or a male, human or non-human, within or without marriage.


platonic love

platonic love (countable and uncountable, plural platonic loves)

Attested 1636 in Platonic Lovers by William Davenant. Earlier coined in Latin in the 15th century as amor platonicus by Florentine scholar Marsilio Ficino (originally in 1476 letter to Alamanno Donati, later expounded in De amore (1484)), based on his interpretation of the Symposium by Plato, specifically the speech by Socrates, relating the thoughts of Diotima of Mantinea.

De amore
Diotima of Mantinea
Marsilio Ficino
Plato
Socrates
William Davenant
platonic love


cooked

en-adj

cooked (comparative more cooked, superlative most cooked)

more cooked (comparative)
most cooked (superlative)

more than someone has had cooked dinners


resident

From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), equivalent to reside + -ent, from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“I sit”). Doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a semantic loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént).

semantic loan

(espionage) Alternative form of rezident


humility

en-noun

humility (countable and uncountable, plural humilities)

From Middle English humilite, from Old French (h)umilité, from Latin humilitas (“lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility”), from humilis (“low, lowly, humble, earth”), equivalent to humble + -ity.; see humble. Doublet of omerta. Displaced native Old English ēaþmōdnes.

der

She had established a character for humility, discretion, noiselessness and religion which Mrs. Piper greatly regretted losing.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 193:

The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.


ninja

ninja (nominative singular)
ninjowie (nominative plural)
ninje (derogatory nominative plural)
ninji (genitive singular)
ninjów (genitive plural)
ninji (dative singular)
ninjom (dative plural)
ninję (accusative singular)
ninjów (accusative plural)
ninje (accusative derogatory plural)
ninją (instrumental singular)
ninjami (instrumental plural)
ninji (locative singular)
ninjach (locative plural)
ninjo (singular vocative)
ninjowie (plural vocative)
ninje (derogatory plural vocative)

Coordinate term: ninjutsu

(espionage, historical, martial arts) ninja (person trained in ninjutsu, especially one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period)


pederasty

en-noun

pederasty (usually uncountable, plural pederasties)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pederasty.wav

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδεραστία (paiderastía, “love of boys”), from παιδεραστής (paiderastḗs, “pederast”), from παῖς (paîs, “child, son, boy”) + ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”), from ἔραμαι (éramai, “to love”).

bor

[…] aber die Entwürdigung der Frauen rächte sich an den Männern und entwürdigte auch sie, bis sie versanken in die Widerwärtigkeit der Knabenliebe und ihre Götter entwürdigten wie sich selbst durch den Mythus von Ganymed.

1962 [1891, 1884], Friedrich Engels, “II. Die Familie”, in Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigentums und des Staats (Marx-Engels-Werke; 21), Dietz Verlag Berlin, page 67; English translation in “II. The Family”, in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Foreign Languages Press, 1978, page 74:

Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.

(archaic) Anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.


gaol

head

gaol m (genitive singular gaoil, plural gaoil)

gaoil (genitive singular)
gaoil (plural)
gaol (indefinite nominative singular)
gaoil (indefinite nominative plural)
gaoil (genitive indefinite singular)
ghaol (genitive indefinite plural)
gaol (dative indefinite singular)
gaoil (dative indefinite plural)
gaolaibh (dative indefinite plural)
gaol (definite nominative singular)
an gaol (definite nominative singular)
gaoil (definite nominative plural)
na gaoil (definite nominative plural)
(a') ghaoil (definite genitive singular)
gaol (definite genitive plural)
nan gaol (definite genitive plural)
(a') ghaol (dative definite singular)
gaoil (dative definite plural)
na gaoil (dative definite plural)
gaolaibh (dative definite plural)
ghaoil (definite singular vocative)
ghaola (definite plural vocative)
gaol
ghaol

From Middle Irish gáel (“relationship”). Cognate with Irish gaol.

Tha gaol agam ort.

I love you. (literally, “is love at me on you”)

Ghabh i trom ghaol air.


justice

en-noun

justice (countable and uncountable, plural justices)

From Middle English justice, from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin iūstitia (“righteousness, equity”), from iūstus (“just”), from iūs (“right”), from Proto-Italic *jowos, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-. Doublet of Justitia.
Displaced native Old English rihtwīsnes.

der

As to Perſons of Quality, they give Security to appropriate a certain Sum for each Child, ſuitable to their Condition; and theſe Funds are always managed with good Husbandry and the moſt exact Juſtice.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 106–107:

Correctness, conforming to reality or rules.


taphophilia

From tapho- + -philia. From Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “funeral rites, burial, funeral, wake; tomb, grave”) + Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “love, fondness”).

uder

Deep interest of funerals, cemeteries and the rituals of death.


spy

From Middle English spien, aphetic variant of earlier espien (“to espy”), from Old French espier (“to spy”), from Frankish *spehōn (“to spy”), from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”). Akin to German spähen (“to spy”), Dutch spieden (“to spy”).
The noun displaced native Old English sċēawere (literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "mirror." In this sense, the verb displaced Old English sċēawian, which was also the word for "to watch" and became the Modern English word show.

ncog

The dead leap at the throat, destroy
The meaning of the day; dark forms
Have scaled your walls, and spies betray
Old secrets to amorphous swarms.

1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 4:

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

(espionage) A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).


befriend

en-verb

befriend (third-person singular simple present befriends, present participle befriending, simple past and past participle befriended)

befriends (present singular third-person)
befriending (participle present)
befriended (participle past)
befriended (past)

From be- + friend. Compare Saterland Frisian befrüündje (“to befriend”), Dutch bevrienden (“to befriend”), German Low German befründen (“to befriend”),
German befreunden (“to befriend”).

cog

1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 143.
Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me.

Befriending one of the 112 managing directors was not enough; you had to befriend a managing director with clout. There was one small problem, of course. Bosses were not always eager to befriend trainees.

1989, Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker, page 52:

"We had a professional relationship, whereas the previous vicar was a friend and had befriended me." "Were you available to befriend people? You said it in a passive voice, as though others befriended you.

1999, Jonathan Cole, About Face, page 121:

If you want to befriend the Loner, you have to be willing to show patience as he becomes more comfortable with you and what friendship entails.

2002, Jan Yager, When Friendship Hurts, page 47:

The social worker very clearly befriends the families with whom she works, and the GP becomes a friend to many of his patients.

2005, Philip Burnard, Counselling Skills for Health Professionals, page 2:

Child sexual abusers are highly manipulative in their befriending of parents and children and are able to deceive all types of family.

2006, Christiane Sanderson, Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, page 17:

(transitive) To become a friend of, to make friends with.


willy

(espionage) A person who is manipulated into serving as a useful agent without knowing it.


beloved

en-adj

beloved (comparative more beloved, superlative most beloved)

more beloved (comparative)
most beloved (superlative)

From Middle English beloved, biloved, equivalent to belove + -ed.

But I found at laſt, by hearing and conſidering of things that are Divine, which indeed I heard of you, as alſo of beloved Faithful, that was put to death for his Faith and good-living in Vanity-fair, That the end of these things is death. [Rom[ans] 6. 21, 22, 23.] And that for theſe things ſake, the wrath of God cometh upon the children of diſobedience. [Eph[esians] 5. 6.]

1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, pages 187–188:

When the Toy had once taken Jupiter in the Head to Enter into a State of Matrimony, he Reſolv'd for the Honour of his Celeſtial Lady, that the whole World ſhould keep a Feſtiual upon the Day of his Marriage, and ſo Invited all Living Creatures, Tag-Rag and Bob-Tail, to the Solemnity to his Wedding. They all came in very Good Time, ſaving the Tortoiſe. Jupiter […] Ask'd him, Why ſo Late? Why truly ſays the Tortoiſe, I was at Home, at my Own Houſe, my Dearly Beloved Houſe, and [Home is Home, let it be never ſo Homely.]

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] CLXXXV. Jupiters Wedding.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 155:

It is ſcarce poſſible to imagine the Conſternation I was now in, being driven from my beloved Iſland (for ſo it appeared to me now to be) into the wide Ocean, almoſt two Leagues, and in the utmoſt Deſpair of ever recovering it again.

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 164–165:

There was a youthe, and a well-beloved youthe, / And he was a ſquires ſon: / He loved the bayliffes daughter deare, / That lived in Iſlington.

1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: […], volume III, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, book II, page 133, lines 1–4:

The vacuum brake, much beloved by English- (though not Scottish-) built or inspired railways, but little favoured elsewhere.

1964 March, “Train braking - the next steps”, in Modern Railways, page 186:

In yonder corner your little chair, / where you often sat at my knee, / singing your sweet murmuring hymns, / my belovèd child!

2014, Niall MacLeòid, “The Death of the Widow's Child”, in Meg Bateman, Anne Loughran, editors, Bàird Ghleann Dail = The Glendale Bards: A Selection of Songs and Poems by Niall MacLeòid (1843–1913), ‘The Bard of Skye’, His Brother Ian Dubh (1847–1901) and Their Father Dòmhnall nan Òran (c. 1787–1873), Edinburgh: John Donald, →ISBN, verse 4:


amo

eo-head

amo (accusative singular amon, plural amoj, accusative plural amojn)

amon (accusative singular)
amoj (plural)
amojn (accusative plural)

Kiu dissemas amon, tiu rikoltos la samon.
Whoever sows love will harvest the same.
—Proverb by Morteza Mirbaghian

Edmond Privat, Vivo de Zamenhof, Ĉapitro 2,

Similar close relationships (lit. loves) between sons and mothers can often been seen in geniuses. Pope, Musset and Lamartine all adored their mothers and owed much to them. The same was true of Zamenhof.

Similaj amoj inter filo kaj patrino ĉe multaj geniuloj estas ofte rimarkeblaj. Pope, Musset, Lamartine adoris la patrinon sian, kaj al ŝi tre multon ŝuldis. Same Zamenhof.

sinamo

self-love, self-regard, vanity, narcissism


amo

la-verb

amō (present infinitive amāre, perfect active amāvī, supine amātum); first conjugation

amō (canonical)
amāre (infinitive present)
amāvī (active perfect)
amātum (supine)
amō (active first-person indicative present singular)
amās (active indicative present second-person singular)
amat (active indicative present singular third-person)
amāmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
amātis (active indicative plural present second-person)
amant (active indicative plural present third-person)
amābam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
amābās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
amābat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
amābāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
amābātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
amābant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
amābō (active first-person future indicative singular)
amābis (active future indicative second-person singular)
amābit (active future indicative singular third-person)
amābimus (active first-person future indicative plural)
amābitis (active future indicative plural second-person)
amābunt (active future indicative plural third-person)
amāvī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
amāvistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
amāstī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
amāvit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
amāt (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
amāvimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
amāmus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
amāvistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
amāstis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
amāvērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
amārunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
amāvēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
amāveram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
amāram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
amāverās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
amārās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
amāverat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
amārat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
amāverāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
amārāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
amāverātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
amārātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
amāverant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
amārant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
amāverō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
amārō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
amāveris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
amāris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
amāverit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
amārit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
amāverimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
amārimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
amāveritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
amāritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
amāverint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
amārint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
amāssō (active first-person future sigmatic singular)
amāssis (active future second-person sigmatic singular)
amāssit (active future sigmatic singular third-person)
amāssimus (active first-person future plural sigmatic)
amāssitis (active future plural second-person sigmatic)
amāssint (active future plural sigmatic third-person)
amor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
amāris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
amāre (indicative passive present second-person singular)
amātur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
amāmur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
amāminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
amantur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
amābar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
amābāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
amābāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
amābātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
amābāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
amābāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
amābantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
amābor (first-person future indicative passive singular)
amāberis (future indicative passive second-person singular)
amābere (future indicative passive second-person singular)
amābitur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
amābimur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
amābiminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
amābuntur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
amem (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
amēs (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
amet (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
amēmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
amētis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
ament (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
amārem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
amārēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
amāret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
amārēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
amārētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
amārent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
amāverim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
amārim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
amāverīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
amārīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
amāverit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
amārit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
amāverīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
amārīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
amāverītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
amārītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
amāverint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
amārint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
amāvissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
amāssem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
amāvissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
amāssēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
amāvisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
amāsset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
amāvissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
amāssēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
amāvissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
amāssētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
amāvissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
amāssent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
amāssim (active aorist first-person sigmatic singular)
amāssīs (active aorist second-person sigmatic singular)
amāssīt (active aorist sigmatic singular third-person)
amāssīmus (active aorist first-person plural sigmatic)
amāssītis (active aorist plural second-person sigmatic)
amāssint (active aorist plural sigmatic third-person)
amer (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
amēris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
amēre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
amētur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
amēmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
amēminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
amentur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
amārer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
amārēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
amārēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
amārētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
amārēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
amārēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
amārentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
amā (active imperative present second-person singular)
amāte (active imperative plural present second-person)
amātō (active future imperative second-person singular)
amātō (active future imperative singular third-person)
amātōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
amantō (active future imperative plural third-person)
amāre (imperative passive present second-person singular)
amāminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
amātor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
amātor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
amantor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
amāre (active infinitive present)
amārī (infinitive passive present)
amāns (active participle present)
amātūrum esse (active future infinitive)
amātum īrī (future infinitive passive)
amātūrus (active future participle)
amandus (future participle passive)
amāvisse (active infinitive perfect)
amāsse (active infinitive perfect)
amātum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
amātus (participle passive perfect)
amātum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
amātūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
amandī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
amandō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
amandum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
amandō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
amātum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
amātū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

Dalmatian:

amur

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: amà

Italian: amare

Neapolitan: ammare

Sicilian: amari

Padanian:

Friulian: amâ

Romansch: amar

Venetan: amar

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: amar

desctree

Old French: amer, aamer, ameir, amere, aimer, aeimer, asmer, eimer
French: aimer
Norman: aimer

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Aragonese: aimar

Catalan: amar

Occitan: aimar

Ibero-Romance:

Mozarabic: امار (amār)

Old Leonese:

Asturian: amar

Extremaduran: amal

Leonese: amare

Mirandese: amar

Old Galician-Portuguese: amar
Galician: amar
Portuguese: amar

Old Spanish:

Ladino: amar / אמאר

Spanish: amar

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: amai (Campidanese), amare (Logudorese)

Inherited from Proto-Italic *amō, see the Proto-Italic entry for more information.

Tū mē amās, egō tē amō; meritō id fierī uterque exīstumat.

You love me, I love you; and each of us believes it to be well-deserved.

Sī vīs amārī, amā.

c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Letters to Lucilius IX.6


friendship

en-noun

friendship (countable and uncountable, plural friendships)

From Middle English frendshipe, from Old English frēondsċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *friundskapi. Equivalent to friend + -ship.


dote

English: dote

A senile individual; an elderly person lacking sound mind.


eros

eros (usually uncountable, plural erotes)

From Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs, “love, desire”).

derived

He would introduce her to the wonders of eros; she would bloom under his expert tutelage.

2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 54:


fib

Unknown. Probably from fable; compare fibble-fable (“nonsense”).

"Oh! you dreadful fib," said Flora.


altruism

en-noun

altruism (countable and uncountable, plural altruisms)

From French altruisme, which was coined in 1830 by Auguste Comte from autrui (“of or to others”) + -isme, from Old French, from Latin alteri, dative of alter (“other”) (whence also English alter). Apparently inspired by the French Latin legal phrase l’autrui, from le bien, le droit d’autrui (“the good, the right of the other”). Introduced into English by George Henry Lewes in 1853, in his translation Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences, 1, xxi.

The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

Altruism allows doing for others as one would be done by. Unlike reaction formation, which also gives to the object what the self desires, altruism leaves the self at least partly gratified. Unlike reaction formation, altruism tempers asceticism with pleasure. Unlike passive aggression and martyrdom, altruism allows the object to feel blessed and not afflicted. Altruism attracts people to the user; martyrdom repels them even as it holds them close in chains.

1995, George E. Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego, page 68:

Regard for others, both natural and moral without regard for oneself; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness.


asexual

ca-adj

asexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural asexuals)


asexual

ca-noun

asexual m or f by sense (plural asexuals)


asexual

ro-adj

asexual m or n (feminine singular asexuală, masculine plural asexuali, feminine and neuter plural asexuale)

asexuală (feminine singular)
asexuali (masculine plural)
asexuale (feminine neuter plural)
asexual (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
asexuală (feminine indefinite singular)
asexuali (indefinite masculine singular)
asexuale (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
asexualul (definite masculine neuter singular)
asexuala (definite feminine singular)
asexualii (definite masculine singular)
asexualele (definite feminine neuter plural)
asexuale (feminine indefinite singular)
asexualului (definite masculine neuter singular)
asexualei (definite feminine singular)
asexualelor (definite masculine singular)
asexualilor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Borrowed from English asexual. Equivalent to a- + sexual.


asexual

asexuali (plural)
asexual (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
asexualul (accusative definite nominative singular)
asexuali (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
asexualii (accusative definite nominative plural)
asexual (indefinite singular)
asexualului (definite singular)
asexuali (indefinite singular)
asexualilor (definite plural)
asexualule (singular vocative)
asexualilor (vocative)


asexual

es-adj

asexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural asexuales)


asexual

es-noun

asexual m or f by sense (plural asexuales)


etiquette

en-noun

etiquette (countable and uncountable, plural etiquettes)

1740, from French étiquette (“property, a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, a label, ticket”), from Middle French estiquette (“ticket, memorandum”), from the Old French verb estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stekan, *stikkjan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”).
Akin to Old High German stehhan (“to stick, attach, nail”) (German stechen (“to stick”)), Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, be fastened”).
The French Court of Louis XIV at Versailles used étiquettes (literally “little cards”) to remind courtiers to keep off of the grass and similar rules. More at stick (verb) and stitch. Doublet of ticket.

cog

20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
Much shock was expressed in the British press about the Palace’s utter failure to control the Markles and the Markles’ lack of etiquette.

Whenever Root would put his elbows on the table or clatter his dishes or commit any other breach of etiquette, the Professor would gently correct him.

2003, Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor:

The manners or decent behaviour to be observed in social or professional life; conventional decorum; the ceremonial code of polite society.

ذَوْق

forms to be observed in social or official life

Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.

2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited:

The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.

A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.


flirt

pl-noun

flirt m inan (diminutive flircik, related adjective flirtowy)

flircik (diminutive)
flirtowy (adjective)
flirt (nominative singular)
flirty (nominative plural)
flirtu (genitive singular)
flirtów (genitive plural)
flirtowi (dative singular)
flirtom (dative plural)
flirt (accusative singular)
flirty (accusative plural)
flirtem (instrumental singular)
flirtami (instrumental plural)
flircie (locative singular)
flirtach (locative plural)
flircie (singular vocative)
flirty (plural vocative)

romance, affair, love affair, liaison, amour (usually adulterous relationship between people who are not married to each other)


temperance

en-noun

temperance (countable and uncountable, plural temperances)

From Anglo-Norman temperance, from Latin temperantia (“moderation, sobriety, discretion, self-control”), from temperans, present participle of temperare (“to moderate”). See temper. English equivalent temper + -ance.

uder

temperance in eating and drinking

temperance in the indulgence of joy

Who did begin their Feaſtes with Prayers; continue them with Temperance, and Sobrietie; eating no more then would ſuffice their hunger; drinking no more then would quench and ſatisfie their thirſt […]

1628, William Prynne, Healthes Sicknesse. Or, a compendious and briefe Discourse; prouing the Drinking, and Pledging of Healthes, to be Sinfull […] , London: Augustine Matthews, page 22:

On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.

1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter II (The Science of Deduction), page 8:

But there was no one to shake Nero into temperance. He had affairs, drank tremendously, raised taxes in the provinces to pay for his indulgences, and started once again to hold the infamous treason trials as Caligula had done.

2007, Susan Wise Bauer, “The Problem of Succession”, in The History of the Ancient World, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, page 729:

Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence.


(ABDL) A lifestyle in which one wears and uses a diaper at all times.


canophilia

Synonym of cynophilia (“The love of dogs.”)


cartophilia

The love of cigarette cards, trade cards, postcards, etc.


coprophilia

en-noun

coprophilia (countable and uncountable, plural coprophilias)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-coprophilia.wav

(psychiatry) A marked interest in excrement; especially the paraphilia involving sexual arousal and pleasure from feces and defecation.

嗜糞癥 /嗜粪症

marked interest in excrement; the use of feces for sexual excitement


bibliophilia

Perhaps his love for the Hebrew Bible prepared him for such finely tuned philanthropy. Or maybe his bibliophilia has consequences for anthropology.

2017, Andrew Gow, Peter Sabo, editors, Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof: Poetry, Prophecy, and Justice in Hebrew Scripture: Essays in Honor of Francis Landy on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, Boston: BRILL, →ISBN, page VII:

(rare) Love or fascination with the Bible.


Francophilia

The love or admiration of France, the French, or French culture.

francofília

love of France, the French or French culture


germanophilia

The love of Germany, the Germans, or German culture.

germanofília

the love of the country, culture or people of Germany


lexiconophilia

The love of dictionaries and other books of words.


lygophilia

From Ancient Greek λύγη (lúgē, “twilight”) and φιλέω (philéō, “I love”).