viveur
English
Etymology
From French viveur.
Noun
viveur (plural viveurs)
- Someone who lives well.
- "Walter Moyne was an extraordinary man, colossally rich, well-meaning, intelligent, scrupulous, yet a viveur ... he collected yachts, fish, monkeys and women." from Chips, the diaries of Sir Henry Channon. Edited by Robert Rhodes James. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1967.
French
Etymology
From vive + -eur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.vœʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
viveur m (plural viveurs)
- debauchee
- Synonyms: débauché, fêtard, noceur
- Tholomyès était un viveur de trente ans, mal conservé. Il était ridé et édenté; et il ébauchait une calvitie dont il disait lui-même sans tristesse: crâne à trente ans, genou à quarante. (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, t. 1, 1862)
Derived terms
- bon viveur
Descendants
- → English: viveur
- → Italian: viveur
References
- “viveur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “viveur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French viveur.
Noun
viveur m (invariable)
- viveur
Further reading
- viveur in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French viveur.
Noun
viveur m (plural viveuri)
- bon vivant
Declension
Declension of viveur
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) viveur | viveurul | (niște) viveuri | viveurii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) viveur | viveurului | (unor) viveuri | viveurilor |
| vocative | viveurule | viveurilor | ||
References
- viveur in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN