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amantă

mistress (a married man's female lover) /aˈmantə/

noun#4916 most common

Also: lover (female), the other woman

Example sentences

El are o amantă.
He has a mistress.
Amanta lui este foarte frumoasă.
His mistress is very beautiful.
Soția a aflat despre amanta soțului ei.
The wife found out about her husband's mistress.
Amanta a refuzat să dea declarații presei.
The mistress refused to give statements to the press.
Relația secretă cu amanta sa a dus în cele din urmă la divorț.
His secret relationship with his mistress eventually led to divorce.
Deși toată lumea din anturajul lui știa despre amantă, nimeni nu a îndrăznit să-i spună soției.
Although everyone in his circle knew about the mistress, no one dared tell his wife.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeamantăamante
Genitiveamanteiamantelor
Accusativeamantăamante
Vocativeamantăamantelor

Word family

amantmale lover
amorlove (poetic or archaic register)
amoros / amoroasăamorous, loving
amabilamiable, pleasant

Etymology

Amantă is the feminine form of amant, borrowed by Romanian from French amante in the nineteenth century, during a period when Romanian absorbed large amounts of French vocabulary. French amante itself descends from Latin amantem, the present participle of amare, meaning to love. The word entered Romanian alongside many other French-derived terms as the language modernized and shed some of its older Slavic-influenced vocabulary.

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