adorable
English
/əˈdɔːɹəbəl/
adj
Definitions
- Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
Etymology
Borrowed from French adorable, adorer (worship, adore) derived from Old French aorer derived from Latin adōrāre (admire, adore, revere), ōrō (plead, pray, beg, speak as an orator, entreat).
Origin
Latin
ōrō
Gloss
plead, pray, beg, speak as an orator, entreat
Concept
Semantic Field
Religion and belief
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
祈
Emoji
⛩️ ⛪️ 🕋 🕌 🕍 🙏 🤲
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- adorability English
- adorableness English
- adorably English
- unadorable English
- adorabilis Latin
- adoro Latin
- adōrāre Latin
- adōrāre, adoro, adōrō Latin
- oraculum Latin
- oratio Latin
- ōrō Latin
- adorare Italian
- adorable French
- adorablement French
- adorateur French
- adorer French
- adorer Old French
- aorer Old French
- adora Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- adouother Norman
- adhuroj Albanian
- uroj Albanian
- adorar Old Portuguese
- or Aromanian
- asorar Old Occitan
- adore Haitian, Haitian Creole