Am 23.04.2010 um 03.14 schrieb Macs R We:
On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote:
Am 22.04.2010 um 02.56 schrieb Macs R We:
temeraire
Well, maybe that's a older word, coming from the french word
"téméraire", which is in french adjective and noun for a
temerarious or venturesome person
Curious. The closest word remaining in English is "timorous," which
means precisely the opposite!
Hm....really curious
First of all, I wanted to describe a person taking lot of risks, a
fearless one
So, I got the word checked in my dictionaries.
In French the person described above is a "téméraire" (a synonym of
"audacieux") one. This term is deriving from latin temerarius, de
temere.
For exemple: There was a french king called Charles "le Téméraire."
The German word for it would be "kuehn" or "verwegen", "wagemutig" or
"waghalsig".
And "wagemutig" or "waghalsig" translates to audacious (see the
synonym obove), "kuehn" and "verwegen" to "temerarious" and/or
"venturesome".
For exemple: As from the year 1759, 4 battleships of the Royal Navy
(that's the playground of Her Majesty the Queen) carried the name of
"HMS Temeraire" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Temeraire).
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