Reconstruction:Latin/amorosus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From amōr- (“love”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix). Eventually surfaces in thirteenth-century Medieval Latin as amōrōsus,[1] a borrowing from one or more of the Romance forms below.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
*amōrōsus (feminine *amōrōsa, neuter *amōrōsum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Romansch: marus
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References edit
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “amorōsus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 476