amasius
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Latin amāsius (“a lover”).
Noun
[edit]amasius (plural amasii)
- (rare, literary) One’s beloved; a lover.
- 1607?, Edward Topsell, The Hiſtory of Four-footed Beaſts and Serpents (1658), “Of the Lion”, page 369:
- Ovid hath a witty fiction of one Phyllius, who fell ſo deeply in love with a little boy, that at his pleaſure he took many wilde Beaſts, Birds, and Lions, and tamed them to the delight of his Amaſius: at length the inſatiable Boy required him to do the like by a Bull, which he had overcome, but Phyllius denying that requeſt, the Boy preſently caſt himſelf down from a Rock, and was afterward turned into a Swan.
- 1607?, Edward Topsell, The Hiſtory of Four-footed Beaſts and Serpents (1658), “Of the Lion”, page 369:
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From amō (“I love”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈmaː.si.us/, [äˈmäːs̠iʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈma.si.us/, [äˈmäːs̬ius]
Noun
[edit]amāsius m (genitive amāsiī or amāsī); second declension
- a lover
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Plautus to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Quintilian to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Aulus Gellius to this entry?)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | amāsius | amāsiī |
Genitive | amāsiī amāsī1 |
amāsiōrum |
Dative | amāsiō | amāsiīs |
Accusative | amāsium | amāsiōs |
Ablative | amāsiō | amāsiīs |
Vocative | amāsie | amāsiī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- amāsia (Mediaeval)
- amāsiuncula
- amāsiunculus
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ămāsĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ămāsĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 109/2.
- “amāsius” on page 113/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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