voyeur

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French voyeur, from the verb voir (“to see”).

Pronunciation

Noun

voyeur (plural voyeurs)

  1. A person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people, especially when such people are engaged in some sexual activity.
  2. An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects.

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Czech

Noun

voyeur m anim

  1. voyeur

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • “voyeur”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • voyeur in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

voyeur m (plural voyeurs, diminutive voyeurtje n)

  1. voyeur

French

Etymology

From voir (“to see”) +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

Noun

voyeur m (plural voyeurs, feminine voyeuse)

  1. observer; watcher
  2. voyeur, peeping tom

Derived terms

Further reading

Portuguese

Noun

voyeur m or f by sense (plural voyeurs)

  1. voyeur (person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing others having sex)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French voyeur.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /bwaˈʝeɾ/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /bwaˈʃeɾ/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /bwaˈʒeɾ/

Noun

voyeur m (plural voyeurs or voyeur)

  1. voyeur

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

Swedish

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Noun

voyeur c

  1. a voyeur (who derives sexual pleasure from watching other people's erotic activity)

Declension

Declension of voyeur 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative voyeur voyeuren voyeurer voyeurerna
Genitive voyeurs voyeurens voyeurers voyeurernas

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References

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