love – English noun declension

English noun forms of love

Noun: love
Singularlove
Pluralloves

Sample Sentences

  • A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
  • My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.
  • My love for Melca is eternal.
  • He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured. [1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:]
  • [2014, S. Hidden, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God, →ISBN:]
  • The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is … the highest of all the Divine commands[.] [1864, Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government]
  • Through nonviolent resistance we shall be able to oppose the unjust system and at the same time love the perpetrators of the system. We must work passionately and unrelentingly for full stature as citizens, but may it never be said, my friends, that to gain it we used the inferior methods of falsehood, malice, hate, and violence. [1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 7:]
  • I have never been in love as much as I have with you.
  • Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd. [1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 39:]
  • The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • My love of cricket knows no bounds.
  • For three decades, the average number of miles driven by US motorists increased steadily. Then, in 2007, that steady climb was suddenly halted. [...] What magic caused Americans to temper their longstanding love of the open road? [2012, Philip Auerswald, The Coming Prosperity, →ISBN:]
  • Open the temple gates unto my love. [1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion:]
  • O love, dispatch all business, and be gone! [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
  • 'Oh, my love, my love!' she murmured, 'wilt thou ever know how I have loved thee?' and she kissed him on the forehead, and then went and stood in the pathway of the flame of Life. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
  • I met my love by the gasworks wall. [1969, The Dubliners, Dirty Old Town:]
  • Hello love, how can I help you?
  • But it wasn't until [Theresa M. Claiborne] went to ROTC training camp at the University of California at Berkeley that she discovered that flying was her first love. "Pilots talk about getting bit by the flying bug," she says. "I thought, This is heaven." [1997 March, “Faces of Today's Black Woman”, in Ebony, volume 52, number 5, page 96:]
  • The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated. [2013, Ronald Long, Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods, Routledge, →ISBN, page 3:]
  • —What think you, my lord, of... love?
  • —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’. [1986, Ben Elton et al., “Bells”, in Blackadder II:]
  • Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future. [2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution, →ISBN:]
  • At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; … [c. 1810, Samuel Johnson (in The Works of Samuel Johnson)]
  • Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood. [1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, […] :]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. The close of a letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
3. 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.
4. Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from Norman amour (“love”).
5. Cognates
6. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'love', Old English Nouns 'lufu', Old English Nouns 'lufian', Dutch Nouns 'lief', Icelandic Nouns 'ljúfur', Russian Nouns 'любовь', Latin Nouns 'libido'.

Verbs referencing "love"

German Nouns Liebe, Russian Nouns любовь, English Nouns lofe, Gothic Nouns 𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍉.