viveur
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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
- 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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[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]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | viveur | viveurul | viveuri | viveurii | |
genitive-dative | viveur | viveurului | viveuri | viveurilor | |
vocative | viveurule | viveurilor |
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