adultère

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See also: adultere, adulteré, and adultéré

French

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.dyl.tɛʁ/
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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin adulter (“adulterous; adulterer”).

Adjective

adultère (plural adultères)

  1. adulterous
    Synonym: infidèle
Derived terms

Noun

adultère m or f by sense (plural adultères)

  1. adulterer, adulteress (an adulterous woman)
    • 1739, Frédéric II, Voltaire, L'anti-Machiavel:
      Les lois de Saxe condamnaient tout adultère à avoir la tête tranchée.
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Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French adultere, a borrowing from Latin adulterium, from adulter.

Noun

adultère m (plural adultères)

  1. adultery (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than his or her spouse)
    • 1901, Pierre Louÿs, Les Aventures du roi Pausole:
      Elle connut les joies de l’adultère, l’étroitesse du fiacre, l’odeur du meublé, l’heure trop courte, le faux nom et la poste restante.
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Descendants

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

adultère

  1. inflection of adultérer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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