viveur
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editviveur (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
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editPronunciation
editNoun
editviveur m (plural viveurs)
- debauchee
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine:
- 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.
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Derived terms
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editReferences
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
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French viveur.
Noun
editviveur m (invariable)
Further reading
edit- viveur in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editviveur m (plural viveuri)
Declension
editDeclension of viveur
singular | plural | |||
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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 |
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