adorable
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from French adorable, from adorer + -able, with adorer from Old French aorer, from Latin adōrāre, the present active infinitive of adōrō, which is from ad + ōrō.
Pronunciation Adjectiveadorable
- Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
- a romantic love song with adorable-sounding drum beats
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC ↗, page 171 ↗:
- Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
- French: adorable, mignon
- German: süß, lieb, nett, bezaubernd, goldig, niedlich
- Italian: adorabile
- Portuguese: adorável
- Russian: хоро́шенький
- Spanish: adorable, encantador
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