love

Significado (inglés)

Noun

1. A deep caring for the existence of another.
2. Strong affection.
3. Strong affection.
4. Strong affection.
5. Strong affection.
6. A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
7. (colloquial) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
8. A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
9. Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
10. Sexual activity.
11. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
12. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
13. Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
14. (obsolete) A thin silk material.
15. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.

Verb

1. To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
2. To need, thrive on.
3. To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
4. To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
5. To derive delight from a fact or situation.
6. Synonym of heart (verb).
7. To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

Verb

Alternative form of lofe (“to praise, sell”)

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/lʌv/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).
The close of a letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from Middle English loven, luvien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubōn (“to love”), derived from the noun.
Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).
Cognates include Russian любовь (ljubovʹ), Latin libido (“desire, lust”), Polish lubić and Sanskrit लोभ (lobha, “desire, greed”).

Oracións

Maybe the alchemist has never been in love , the boy thought .