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amour

/a.muʁ/

noun, masculine/feminine/a.muʁ/plural: amours

amour is masculine or feminine depending on context in French.

love

1688, Guy Miège, French-English dictionary

Related: à tes amours, à vos amours, amour courtois, amour de soi, amour de vacances, amour libre, amour platonique, amour-propre, amoureux, chagrin d'amour

Inherited from Middle French amour, from Old French amor, from Latin amor. The regular phonetic development would be ameur, attested in Old French (compare Picard anmeur). There has probably been an influence from Old Occitan.