Talk:philander

I tried to find the female equivalent of this word but failed. Is there no definition for philgyner? I assume that philgyner would be defined as:

To make love to men; to play the female flirt.

Can anyone verify this?

If this word does not exist before now (which I highly doubt though it may take another form) I suggest this be added anyway and linked to the definition of philander and vice versa. What constitutes the creation/adoption of a word?


 * The word would be philogyne.  (-ander doesn't take the Greek linking -o- in compounds because it starts with a vowel, but -gyne does.  And the -r is part of the root of -andr-, not something that would migrate to -gyne.)   The word doesn't seem to be in English but Google suggests it appears in French dictionaries.


 * The word is not in use so we won't be adding it. See WT:CFI. Equinox ◑ 01:41, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

(possibly) finding and adding a quotation of Congreve
The last time I checked, the first definition [entry] for "noun", here, contained [the template instance]

which ... expands to (it is displayed as):

and ... I am not sure about the answer, but ... I did a search for [the word] "philander" at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1292/1292-h/1292-h.htm, and ... I found ONE instance of that word there. Your guess is as good as ^H^H^H better than mine, whether that could be turned in to a suitable quotation of Congreve for this entry. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 06:12, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * This use does attest to the term as a noun, but not to the sense. It may as well (or even more likely) mean here.  --Lambiam 22:04, 15 December 2020 (UTC)


 * The term is glossed as “ dawdling lover ” here, and its etymology is given as stemming from the name of Philander, a young Dutch knight, who slew Argaeus, baron of Servia, and married his wife Gabrina, only to be poisoned by her – a story related in , Canto XXI (Filandro in the Italian text). I cannot evaluate the merits of this etymology. --Lambiam 22:36, 15 December 2020 (UTC)