viveur

English

Etymology

From French viveur.

Noun

viveur (plural viveurs)

1. 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)

1. debauchee

   Synonyms: débauché, fêtard, noceur

   • 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

• 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)

1. 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)

1. 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