aimer

English

Etymology

aim + -er

Pronunciation

Noun

aimer (plural aimers)

  1. One who aims; one who is responsible for aiming.
    • 2009 April 4, Steve Holland, “Ron 'Nobby' Clark”, in The Guardian:
      After joining the RAF, he trained as a bomb aimer in Oxfords, Ansons and Wellingtons before joining a squadron of Lancasters.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From the conjugated forms of Old French amer, from Latin amāre (to love).

Pronunciation

Verb

aimer

  1. to love (usually of a person, otherwise the meaning is closer to like)
    Donne-moi une raison de t’aimer.
    Give me a reason to like you.
    J’aime cet homme-ci plus que tout au monde.
    I love this man more than anything in the world.
  2. to like (often with bien)
    Il aime bien danser.He likes dancing.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Saint Dominican Creole French: haimé

Further reading

Anagrams

Norman

Etymology

From Old French amer.

Verb

aimer

  1. (transitive) to love
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 515:
      Si l'houme aïme autre mûx que sé au moulin i' mourra de set.
      If a man loves others more than himself, he will die of thirst even were he in a mill.

Conjugation

Antonyms

  • haïr (to hate)
  • haguir (to hate)

Old French

Verb

aimer

  1. Alternative form of amer

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ms, *-mt are modified to ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

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