adamo
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom ad- (“near, at; towards, to”) + amō (“love”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.da.moː/, [ˈäd̪ämoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.da.mo/, [ˈäːd̪ämo]
Verb
editadamō (present infinitive adamāre, perfect active adamāvī, supine adamātum); first conjugation
- (to love emphatically): to love ardently, deeply, earnestly, greatly or truly, to love with all one's heart; to be devoted, to be enamored, to be infatuated
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.31:
- Horum primo circiter milia XV Rhenum transisse; postea quam agros et cultum et copias Gallorum homines feri ac barbari adamassent, traductos plures; nunc esse in Gallia ad C et XX milium numerum.
- That about 15,000 of them [i.e. of the Germans] had at first crossed the Rhine: but after that these wild and savage men had become enamored of the lands and the refinement and the abundance of the Gauls, more were brought over, that there were now as many as 120,000 of them in Gaul.
- Horum primo circiter milia XV Rhenum transisse; postea quam agros et cultum et copias Gallorum homines feri ac barbari adamassent, traductos plures; nunc esse in Gallia ad C et XX milium numerum.
- (to desire emphatically): to covet, to crave, to desire, to long for, to want
- (to conceive love or desire): to become enamored, to become captivated, to become devoted, to fall in love
Conjugation
editIn Classical Latin, adamō was only used in the perfect and pluperfect tenses.
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Descendants
edit- Spanish: adamar
References
edit- “adamo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adamo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- adamo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be an enthusiastic devotee of letters: litteras adamasse (only in perf. and plup.)
- to become devoted to some one: adamasse aliquem (only in Perf. and Plup.) (Nep. Dion 2. 3)
- to be an enthusiastic devotee of letters: litteras adamasse (only in perf. and plup.)
Spanish
editVerb
editadamo
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