amative

English

WOTD – 14 February 2006

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der.
Proto-Italic *amāō
Latin amō
Latin amātus
Medieval Latin amātīvusder.
English amative

    From Medieval Latin amātīvus, from Latin amātus, perfect passive participle of amō (“love”).

    Pronunciation

    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈam.ə.tɪv/
      • Audio (Southern England):(file)

    Adjective

    amative (not comparable)

    1. Pertaining to love; amorous.
      • 1893, George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer:
        His amative enthusiasm, at which he is himself laughing, and his clever, imaginative, humorous ways, contrast strongly with the sincere tenderness and dignified quietness of the woman.
      • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 151:
        He was also confounded by its implication in Podson. Damme, the idea of that runt of a feller makin' up to a woman old enough to be his mother! Bradly banged pots about the stove, preparing the evening meal, to relieve himself of an outraged sense of propriety at Podson's amative presumption.
      • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 97:
        His endearments were not amative or effete, but manly like Churchill's, and gave one a sense of being singled out, of having value.

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    Italian

    Adjective

    amative f

    1. feminine plural of amativo

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