Etymology of the English word amour-propre
the English word
amour-proprederived from the French word
amour-proprederived from the Old French word
amourderived from the Old Provençal word
amourderived from the Latin word
amor (love; affection; the beloved)
derived from the Latin word
amare (love, like; fall in love with; with bitterness, acidly, spitefully)
derived from the Old French word
proprederived from the Medieval Latin word
proprius (special; own, very own; individual)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*perUsage
Word found in Modern English
