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amor

See also: amor-, Amor, and amôr

English

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Noun

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amor (plural amors)

  1. Alternative form of amour
    • 1775, Robert Jephson, “The Hotel”, in Braganza. A Tragedy. […], Dublin: […] Messrs. Exshaw, Sleater, Potts, Chamberlaine, Williams, Wilson, Husband, Porter, Walker, Jenkin, Flyn, and Hillary, page 41; republished as “The Hotel”, in The English and American Stage, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: […] David Longworth, […], 1807, act II, scene II, pages 31–32:
      Don Ped. That all the care I took of myself should be thrown away—never exposing myself to the night air; never fatiguing myself beyond a gentle perspiration, so careful of my diet, so regular in my hours, so chaste in my amors [originally amours], and after all this, in the evening of my days to have a long spado run through my guts, and look like a blue-breech’d fly with a corking pin sticking in it!
    • 1810 September, “Gil Blas […] a fine gentleman”, in The Adventures of Gil Blas, of Santillane, Abridged, Leominster: […] Salmon Wilder, for Isaiah Thomas, Jun., page 70:
      In this manner I succeed in my amors, and would advise thee to take the same method.
    • 1845 April, Ned Buntline, “A Night-Adventure in Cuba”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XXV, number 4, New York, N.Y.: […] John Allen, […], page 326:
      ‘Dulce, will you go to the masquerade-ball to night?’ said I to my lesser-half, on a bright evening during the gayest part of the ‘carnival season.’ / ‘No, my amor,’ answered she; ‘I am ill this evening; do n’t go out to-night, but stay by my side, and let your cheering presence save a doctor’s fee.’
    • 1905, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Selection in Man, page 240:
      But even in the midst of my love affairs I always retained sufficient sense to criticise the moral and intellectual calibre of the women I loved, and I held strong views on the advisability of mental and moral sympathies and congenial tastes existing between people who married. In my amors I had hitherto found no intellectual equality or sympathies.
    • 1981, Katherine Yorke, Falcon Gold, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 247:
      The late Queen was a model in this respect about the amors of His Majesty, even allowing his mistresses to become her ladies-in-waiting.
    • 1991, M. C. Beaton, His Lordship’s Pleasure (The Regency Intrigue Series), New York, N.Y.: RosettaBooks, published 2011, →ISBN:
      “Imply once more that I am of that breed who prefer amors with their own sex and I shall blow your head off,” he said levelly. […] But he was merely an accomplished flirt and she was the impoverished Mrs. Carruthers, married to a drunk and a wastrel, and had spent a precious part of the evening allowing herself to be questioned about the amors of a rake by a silly girl. […] I do not like to broadcast my amors about the town.
    • 2003, Sting, Broken Music: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 123:
      The years of safe sex and condoms being years hence, we live with a libertine fatalism and I’m too ignorant and horny to calibrate my amors to the female cycle.

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Asturian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin amōrem.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aˈmoɾ/ [aˈmoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: a‧mor

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amor m (plural amores)

  1. love
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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin amōrem. First attested in the 12th century.[1]

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amor m or (archaic or poetic) f (plural amors)

  1. love
    Antonym: odi

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References

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  1. ^ “amor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

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Chavacano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Spanish amor (“love”).

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amor

  1. love

Galician

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese amor, from Latin amōrem.

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  • IPA(key): /aˈmoɾ/ [aˈmoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Hyphenation: a‧mor

Noun

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amor m (plural amores)

  1. love
    Antonym: odio
  2. love, darling
    • O meu amor mariñeiro (1981), song by L. Álvarez Pousa and Xosé L. Rivas (Fuxan os Ventos):
      Meu amor é mariñeiro
      e vive no alto mar;
      son os seus brazos o vento
      ninguén llos pode amarrar
      My love is a sailor
      and he lives in the high sea;
      his arms are the wind:
      no one can moor them

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin amor.

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amor m (genitive singular amors, no plural)

  1. (rare, obsolete) love
    Synonyms: ást, kærleiki

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Declension of amor (sg-only masculine)
singular
indefinite definite
nominative amor amorinn
accusative amor amorinn
dative amor amornum
genitive amors amorsins

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References

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  • Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “amor”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Interlingua

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Etymology

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From Latin amor.

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amor

  1. love

Italian

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amor m (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of amore

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Ladino

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish amor, from Latin amōrem.

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amor m

  1. love

Latin

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Etymology 1

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amō +‎ -or.

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Noun

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amor m (genitive amōris); third declension

  1. love, affection, devotion (for a person, one's family, one's country)
    amor alicuius / in aliquem / erga aliquem ― love for somebody
    Amor fati ― love of fate
    • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues 10.69:
      Omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori.
      Love defeats everything, and even we must give in to love.
      Love conquers all; and we must yield to Love. (transl. by John Dryden)
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.20:
      [dixit] sese tamen et amore fraterno et existimatione vulgi commoveri.
      [Divitiacus said] that, moreover, he was motivated by love for his brother and the common people's affection.
  2. strong and passionate longing for something, desire, lust
    Synonyms: cupīdō, libīdō, dēsīderium, ardor, appetītus, studium, impetus, appetītiō
    amor laudum ― desire for praises/glory
    • 45 BCE, Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum 5.48:
      Tantus est igitur innatus in nobis cognitionis amor et scientiae, ut nemo dubitare possit quin, ad eas res hominum, natura nullo emolumento invitata rapiatur.
      And so, the desire for understanding and knowledge is so great, no one can doubt that, in human topics, there's a way to dissuade human nature from attainment (of knowledge).
  3. beloved, loved person
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.452–453:
      Primus amor Phoebi Daphne Peneia, quem non fors / ignara dedit, sed saeva Cupidinis ira.
      Phoebus' first love was Daphne the Penean, which accidental luck did not give (to him), but rather Cupid's fierce anger.
  4. sex
    • 29 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.242–244:
      Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque
      et genus aequoreum, pecudes pictaeque uolucres,
      in furias ignemque ruunt: amor omnibus idem.
      Thus everywhere every type of people and beasts,
      whether those of water, livestock, or those portrayed flying,
      are ruined into fury and fire: sex is the same to all.
  5. (in the plural) love, sweetheart (term of endearment)
  6. (plural only) love affair
    • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 7:
      aut quam sidera multa, cum tacet nox, / furtivos hominum vident amores: / tam te basia multa basiare / vesano satis et super Catullo'st
      or as many as the stars, when the night is silent, watching people's secret love affairs: for you to kiss these many kisses / would be more than enough for frenzied Catullus...
  7. the god Cupid; see: Amor
    • c. 2 CE, Ovid, The Cure for Love 1.1–2:
      Legerat huius Amor titulum nomenque libelli: 'Bella mihi, video, bella parantur' ait.
      Cupid read the title and name of this little book [The Cure for Love], and said, "War, I see war is being prepared for, against me."
  8. (figuratively) used to signify something associated with love
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.515–516:
      [...] quaeritur et nāscentis equī dē fronte revolsus / et mātrī praereptus amor.
      [...] and [the priestess] requires a love-[charm], having been plucked from the forehead of a foal at birth before being snatched away by its mother.
      (This unusual use of “amor” is traditionally understood here to mean a magic charm or philter, a reference to ancient belief in the magical properties of a hippomanes.)
Declension
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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative amor amōrēs
genitive amōris amōrum
dative amōrī amōribus
accusative amōrem amōrēs
ablative amōre amōribus
vocative amor amōrēs
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Italic *amāor, from *amāō.

Verb

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amor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of amō, "I am loved"

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  • “amor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “amor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "amor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • amor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to feel affection for a person: in amore habere aliquem
    • to feel affection for a person: amore prosequi, amplecti aliquem
    • to be fired with love: amore captum, incensum, inflammatum esse, ardere
    • to banish love from one's mind: amorem ex animo eicere
    • somebody's darling: amores et deliciae alicuius
    • to be some one's favourite: in amore et deliciis esse alicui (active in deliciis habere aliquem)
  • “amor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “amor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Leonese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin amōrem.

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amor m (in the plural amores)

  1. love

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Occitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Occitan amor, from Latin amōrem. Attested from the 12th century.[1]

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amor m (plural amors)

  1. love
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  1. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page {{{1}}}.

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin amōrem.

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amor oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural amors, nominative singular amors, nominative plural amor)

  1. love

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  • Attestable as both a masculine and a feminine noun, sometimes both in the same text
  • Often capitalized because of the perceived importance of the word
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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin amōrem.

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amor m (plural amors)

  1. love

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Old Occitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin amōrem.

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amor m (oblique plural amors, nominative singular amors, nominative plural amor)

  1. love
    • c. 1160, Raimbaut d'Aurenga, vers:
      Assatz sai d’amor ben parlar [...].
      Well I know how to speak of love [...].

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese amor, from Latin amōrem.

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  • Homophone: amou (non-rhotic accents)
  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: a‧mor

Noun

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amor m (plural amores)

  1. love
    Antonyms: desamor, ódio
  2. (figuratively, endearing) honey, babe, sweetheart, darling (term of endearing)
    • 2018, “Queima Minha Pele”, performed by Baco Exu do Blues:
      Amor, você é como o sol / Ilumina o meu dia, mas queima minha pele
      Darling, you're like the sun / You light up my day, but burn my skin
    Amor, cheguei.
    Honey, I'm home.
    Synonym: querido
  3. (figuratively) a kind or humble person
    Ele é um amor.
    He is a lovely person.

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Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin amōrem, French amour, Italian amore.

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  • IPA(key): /aˈmor/
  • Rhymes: -or
  • Hyphenation: a‧mor

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amor n (plural amoruri)

  1. love
    Synonyms: iubire, dragoste

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Declension of amor
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative amor amorul amoruri amorurile
genitive-dative amor amorului amoruri amorurilor
vocative amorule amorurilor

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin amōrem.

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  • IPA(key): /aˈmoɾ/ [aˈmoɾ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: a‧mor

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amor m (plural amores)

  1. love
    Antonyms: odio, desamor
  2. love affair
    Synonym: aventura

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish amor. Doublet of amores.

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amór (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜓᜇ᜔)

  1. love; affair
    Synonyms: ibigan, pag-iibigan, mahalan, pagmamahalan
  2. esteem; affection
    Synonyms: pagkakagusto, paghanga, amistad

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Further reading

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  • “amor”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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