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# Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-1468/
- Published: 2019-06-01T18:15:16.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-22T21:15:49.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

The word for today is…

paramour (noun) – A lover, especially a lover of a person who is married to someone else.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/paramour?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Circa. 1300, noun use of adverbial phrase par amour (circa 1300) “passionately, with strong love or desire,” from Anglo-French and Old French par amour, from accusative of amor “love,” from amare “to love”). Originally a term for Christ (by women) or the Virgin Mary (by men), it came to mean “darling, sweetheart” (mid-14th century) and “mistress, concubine, clandestine lover” (late 14th century).