amortissable, adj., (fin.) redeemable.
amortissement (-mān), n.m., redeeming, buying up; liquidation; sinking; deadening, abatement, redemption; amortization; (arch.) the uppermost part of a building, top, pediment, finishing; (nav.) lying aground. Caisse d’—; sinking-fund office. Fonds d’—; sinking-fund (capital).
amour, n.m., love, lovingness, passion, flame. L’Amour; (myth.) Eros; Cupid. Beau comme l’Amour; a very Adonis. Lacs d’—; love-knot. Avec —; lovingly, carefully. Se marier par —; to marry for love. Mourir d’—; to be lovesick. Avoir de l’— pour; to be in love with. En —; (of animais) in heat. Filer le parfait —; to play the sentimental lover. Faire l’—; to court, to make love to. Pour l’— de Dieu; for God’s sake. Je voudrais pour l’— de vous que cela fût; I wish it were so for your sake. C’est un vrai remède d’—; she is a perfect fright. La terre est en —; the land is ripe for vegetation. Cette montre est un véritable —; that is a love of a watch. Quel — d’enfant! what a love of a child! — propre, self-love, self-respect, conceit, vanity.
amours, n.f.pl., one’s love, flame, amours; delight. Ses premières —; his first love. Les —; (myth.) the Loves. De folles —; foolish love. Les tableaux sont ses —; pictures are his delight. Froides mains, chaudes —; cold hand, warm heart.
amouraché, -e, part., (fam.) smitten, in love with.
amouracher, v.a., to make fall in love.
s’amouracher, v.a., (fam.) to become enamored of, smitten with.
amourette, n.f., intrigue; love, love-affair; amour; (bot.) quaking-grass. —s de veau; calf’s marrow.
amoureusement (-eûz-mān), adv., amorously, lovingly; tenderly, softly.
amoureu-x, -se, adj., in love, enamored, amorous; loving. Il est — de cette femme; he is in love with that woman. Regards —; looks full of love. Devenir —; to fall in love. Être — des onze mille vierges; to be a universal lover, a man-flirt.