viveur
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
viveur m (plural viveurs)
- debauchee
- 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 edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “viveur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading edit
- “viveur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French viveur.
Noun edit
viveur m (invariable)
Further reading edit
- viveur in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
viveur m (plural viveuri)
Declension edit
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 | ||