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English
Etymology
From French viveur.
Noun
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
Etymology
From vive + -eur.
Pronunciation
Noun
viveur m (plural viveurs)
- 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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French viveur.
Noun
viveur m (invariable)
- 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)
- bon vivant
Declension
References
- viveur in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN