enamorado

See also: Enamorado

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish enamorado.

Noun

enamorado (plural enamoradoes)

1. (dated) A lover; a person in love.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lover

   • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 4:

     Two more things they are looking at out there are a sign on the rear bumper reading “Custer Died for Your Sins” and, at the wheel, Lois's enamorado Stewart Brand, a thin blond guy with a blazing disk on his forehead too, and a whole necktie made of Indian beads.

Anagrams

• aeromonad

Portuguese

Etymology

Past participle of enamorar.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.na.moˈɾa.du/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.nɐ.muˈɾa.du/ [i.nɐ.muˈɾa.ðu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.nɐ.muˈɾa.du/ [i.nɐ.muˈɾa.ðu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.nɐ.muˈɾa.du/

• Hyphenation: e‧na‧mo‧ra‧do

Adjective

enamorado (feminine enamorada, masculine plural enamorados, feminine plural enamoradas)

1. infatuated, smitten

Derived terms

• enamoradamente

Participle

enamorado (feminine enamorada, masculine plural enamorados, feminine plural enamoradas)

1. past participle of enamorar

Further reading

• “enamorado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “enamorado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Past participle of enamorar. Compare Catalan enamorat, Portuguese namorado and Italian innamorato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enamoˈɾado/ [e.na.moˈɾa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: e‧na‧mo‧ra‧do

Adjective

enamorado (feminine enamorada, masculine plural enamorados, feminine plural enamoradas)

1. infatuated, having a crush on, feeling love or attraction for another

   Ella está enamorada de mi hermano.

   She has a crush on my brother.

2. enamored, in love, smitten

   Estoy enamorado de tu hermana.

   I am in love with your sister.

Noun

enamorado m (plural enamorados, feminine enamorada, feminine plural enamoradas)

1. lover (person in love)

Participle

enamorado (feminine enamorada, masculine plural enamorados, feminine plural enamoradas)

1. past participle of enamorar

Related terms

• enamoramiento

Further reading

• “enamorado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025