adamo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From ad- (“near, at; towards, to”) + amō (“love”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.da.moː/, [ˈäd̪ämoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.da.mo/, [ˈäːd̪ämo]
Verb edit
adamō (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 edit
In 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 edit
Verb edit
adamo