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PARAMOUR
Definition of PARAMOUR
noun
A person who is the object of one's love, especially in an affair or romance; a lover; also, a sexual partner.
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Where it comes from
The adverb is derived from Middle English par amour, paramore, paramours (“with sexual desire or love, passionately; in a courteous or friendly manner”), from Anglo-Norman par amur (“in a friendly or willing manner”) and Old French par amur, par amour, paramours (“by or through love”) (modern French par amour), from par (“by; through; etc.”) (from Latin per (“by means of, through”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; etc.”)) + amor, amur (“love”, noun) (from Latin amōrem, the accusative singular of amor (“desire, lust; affection, love”), from amō (“to love”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- (“to grasp, seize; to take hold; to touch; etc.”)) + -or (suffix forming abstract nouns)). The noun is from Middle English paramour, paramoure, paramur, peramour (“wife; concubine; mistress; husband; male lover; darling, sweetheart; romantic love; sexual passion; (Christianity) Jesus Christ; the Virgin Mary; divine or spiritual love”), from par amour, paramore (adverb) (see above), possibly from a misinterpretation of to love paramour(s) (“to love passionately”) to mean “to love a beloved person”. The verb is partly from both of the following:
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,866)
How it is built
Same root, PARAMOUR · 1 relative in the game
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARAMOUR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARAMOUR starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AAMOPRRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and R appear more than once.
Words that start PARAMO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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