What is "amour"

Amour \A*mour"\, n. [F., fr. L. amor love.]

1. Love; affection. [Obs.]

2. Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.

   In amours with, in love with. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] ||

c.1300, "love," from Old French amour, from Latin amorem (nominative amor) "love, affection, strong friendly feeling" (it could be used of sons or brothers, but especially of sexual love), from amare "to love" (see Amy). The accent shifted 15c.-17c. to the first syllable as the word became nativized, then shifted back as the naughty or intriguing sense became primary and the word was felt to be a euphemism.\n\nA common ME word for love, later accented ámour (cf. enamour). Now with suggestion of intrigue and treated as a F[rench] word.

[Weekley]

n. 1 (context obsolete English) love, affection. 2 courtship; flirtation. 3 A love affair.

n. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement]

Amour (French for love) may refer to:

• Amour (1970 film), a Danish film
• Amour (2012 film), a French-language film directed by Michael Haneke
• Amour (musical), a 1997 stage musical by Michel Legrand
• Amour (Stockhausen), a 1974–76 cycle of clarinet pieces by Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Amour (Vidhan Sabha constituency), an assembly constituency in Purnia district, Bihar, India
• Amour Patrick Tignyemb (born 1985), Cameroonian footballer
• "Amour", a song by Rammstein from Reise, Reise

Amour is a musical fantasy with an English book by Jeremy Sams, music by Michel Legrand, and lyrics by Didier Van Cauwelaert, who wrote the original French libretto.

The musical is adapted from the 1943 short story Le Passe-Muraille by Marcel Aymé and set in Paris shortly after World War II. It centers on a shy, unassuming clerk who develops the ability to walk through walls, and who challenges himself to stick to his moral center and change others' lives, and his own, as a result.

Amour is a cycle of five pieces for clarinet by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in 1974–76. The composer thought of each piece as a gift for a close friend. The cycle is given the number 44 in Stockhausen's catalogue of works.

Amour (also known as Ways of Women) is a 1970 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel.

Amour (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Purnia district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Amour (; French: " Love") is a 2012 French-language romantic drama film written and directed by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses her on the right side of her body. The film is a co-production among the French, German, and Austrian companies Les Films du Losange, X-Filme Creative Pool, and Wega Film.

The film was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards, and was nominated in four other categories: Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Emmanuelle Riva), Best Original Screenplay (Michael Haneke) and Best Director (Michael Haneke). At the age of 85, Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

At the 25th European Film Awards, it was nominated in six categories, winning in four, including Best Film and Best Director. At the 47th National Society of Film Critics Awards it won the awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress. At the 66th British Academy Film Awards it was nominated in four categories, winning for Best Leading Actress and Best Film Not in the English Language. Emmanuelle Riva became the oldest person to win a BAFTA. At the 38th César Awards it was nominated in ten categories, winning in five, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.

Amour(s) is the seventh studio album by French-Belgian singer Viktor Lazlo, which was mainly released in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan, while another album Loin de Paname, consisting of chansons, was released in France that same year.

Lazlo started recording Amour(s) in Verona, Italy in the year 2000. The album was produced by Theo Spagna, who is responsible for many hits of Italian singer Spagna, and Sergio Dall'ora.

The album includes the hit single It's A Message For You, a duet with Biagio Antonacci, which peaked at No. 7 on the Belgian single charts and remained on the charts for 17 weeks. The CD single contains the original Italian/English and an Italian/French version, entitled Le Message Est Pour Toi. The single received gold status in Belgium for more than 50,000 sold copies.

Another single off the album is the duet Besame Mucho with Raul Paz, which was released as a CD single in Germany and was on the official soundtrack album of the German film Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit. The soundtrack peaked on the German album charts at No. 94. The song Sound of Expectation was released as a promotional single.