love
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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 Norman amour (“love”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots luve (“love”), Saterland Frisian ljo, ljoo, ljoof (“dear, sweet”), Ljoote, Ljoowe (“love”), West Frisian leaf (“friendly, kind, cordial”), leafde (“love”), Dutch lief (“lovely, nice, sweet”), liefde (“love”), German lieb (“dear; lovable”), Liebe (“love”), German Low German Leevde, Lieve (“love”), Luxembourgish léif (“lovely, kind, nice, sweet”), Léift (“love”), Vilamovian łiwa (“love”), Yiddish ליב (lib, “nice; kind”), Icelandic ljúfur (“beloved, dear”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish ljuv (“lovely, sweet”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (liufs, “beloved, dear”), Albanian lyp (“to beg”), Russian любовь (ljubovʹ, “love”), Lithuanian liaupsė (“praise”), Latin libido (“desire, lust”), Polish lubić (“to like”), Persian آلفتن (âloftan, “to enamor”), Sanskrit लोभ (lobha, “desire, greed”).
Inflected forms:
form: loves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: love
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: love
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: loved
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: love
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: lovest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: loved
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: lovedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: loves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loveth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: loved
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: love
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: loved
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: love
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: loved
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: love
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: loving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loue
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: luv
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Internet
Senses:
gloss: To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
sometimes
stative
transitive
usually
examples: I love my spouse. I love you! I love that song!
wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
gloss: To need, thrive on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mold loves moist, dark places.
gloss: To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair
"I love not that underlings should perceive my wisdom."
“Everywhere he went, I went with him. When I was twenty-three, I had been nearly all over the world. It was a splendid life—I loved it.”
gloss: To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
sometimes
transitive
usually
examples: For God so loued þe world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.
Iesus sayd vnto him, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy minde. This is the first and great Commandement. And the second is like vnto it, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.
gloss: To derive delight from a fact or situation.
pos: verb
tags: ironic
sometimes
transitive
examples: I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
gloss: Synonym of heart (verb).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
examples: She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
gloss: To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
transitive
examples: I wish I could love her all night long.
Synonyms: cherish
go to bed with
sleep with
care for
cling to
dote
fancy
love
Antonyms: hate
despise
fear
Related words: lov
luv
wuv
charity
fall in love
revere
Derived words: all is fair in love and war
all-loving
all's fair in love and war
antilove
apple of love
arrow of love
belove
boylove
boy's love
boys' love
brotherly love
calf love
castle of love
cat's love
childlove
courtly love
cupboard love
cyberlove
declaration of love
do you love me
everything is fair in love and war
face only a mother could love
face that only a mother could love
falling in love
fall in love
fall out of love
first love
forelove
for love nor money
for love or money
for the love of
for the love of all that is good
for the love of all that is holy
for the love of Betsy
for the love of Christ
for the love of fuck
for the love of God
for the love of Goddess
for the love of me
for the love of Mike
for the love of Moses
for the love of shit
for the love of the game
free love
girllove
God love someone
hate the sin but love the sinner
I have to love you and leave you
I love you
I'm in love with you
in love
in love with
instalove
labor of love
labour of love
lack-love
lad's love
ladylove
lady love
law of love
leaflove
light-o'-love
light o' love
Lord love a duck
Lord love you
lots of love
lovability
love a duck
love affair
love-aholic
loveaholic
love apple
love at first sight
love away
lovebead
love bead
love-bead
love bird
lovebird
love-bite
love bite
lovebite
love boat
love bomber
love-bombing
love bombing
love-bomb
love bomb
lovebot
love box
lovebud
love bug
lovebug
lovebunny
love button
love buzz
love canal
love cannot be forced
love charm
love-child
lovechild
love child
love conquers all
love curl
love custard
love cycle
love darg
love dart
loveday
love doll
lovedom
love dove
love draught
love drug
loved-up
lovee
love egg
love feast
love-feat
lovefest
loveful
love game
love glove
love goggles
love grass
love-hair
love handle
love-handled
love-hate
love-hatred
love heart
love hold
love hole
love hotel
love-in
love-in-a-mist
love in a mist
love in a puff
love-in-idleness
love interest
love-in-winter
love is blind
love is love
love it or lump it
love jihad
love jones
love jug
love juice
lovekin
lovekins
love knot
love language
loveless
love letter
love-lies-bleeding
love life
lovelight
love-light
lovelike
loveling
love lips
lovelock
love lock
love-lock
lovelore
lovelorn
love lotion
lovely
love machine
lovemaker
love making
love-making
love manual
lovemap
lovemark
love marriage
love match
love-match
lovemate
lovemobile
lovemonger
love mound
love muscle
loveness
love nest
love nut
love offering
love of one's life
love on
love orgy
love padlock
lovepat
love philtre
love pill
love pillow
love play
love pocket
love polygon
love potion
love powder
love pump
love quadrangle
lover
love rat
love recipe
love rectangle
love rose
lovertine
love sausage
love scam
love scene
love script
loveseat
love seat
loveship
love-shy
love-shyness
lovesick
love slave
lovesome
love song
love spoon
love spud
love spuds
love stick
lovestone
love story
love-struck
love swing
love-tap
lovetap
love tap
love team
loveteam
love the sinner but hate the sin
love token
love tonic
love tool
love toy
love triangle
love truncheon
love tunnel
love up
love vine
love wand
love-worthiness
loveworthy
love ya
lovey-dovey
love you
lovie
loving kindness
lovish
loyal love
make love
make love to the camera
mislove
money-love
motherlove
no glove no love
no love lost
nonlove
obsessive love disorder
one love
only a mother could love
outlove
overlove
parental love
Persian love
physical love
platonic love
play for love
progressive love
puppy love
Queen of Love
relove
self-love
self-loving
sisterly love
soul-love
the course of true love never did run smooth
the love of money is the root of all evil
tough-love
tough love
tree of love
true love
truelove
true-love knot
true-love-knot
tug of love
tunnel of love
unlove
unrequited love
what's not to love
zouk love
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