noun · masculinethird declension
amor1
amor m (genitive amōris)
Classical[ˈa.mɔr]Ecclesiastical[ˈaː.mor]
№ 116 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- masculinelove, affection, devotion (for a person, one's family, one's country)
amor alicuius / in aliquem / erga aliquem
love for somebodyamor fati
love of fate - masculinestrong and passionate longing for something, desire, lust
amor laudum
desire for praises/gloryTantus 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).45 BCE, Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum 5.48 - masculinebeloved, loved person
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.8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 1.452–453 - masculinesex
Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque et genus aequoreum, pecudes pictaeque uolucres,
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.29 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 3.242–244 - in pluralmasculinelove, sweetheart (term of endearment)
- masculinepluralplural onlylove affair
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...c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 7 - masculinethe god Cupid; see: Amor
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."c. 2 CE, Ovidius, Remedia Amoris 1.1–2 - figurativelymasculineused to signify something associated with love
[...] 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.)29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.515–516
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
quod sentīmus cum amāmus.amor -ōris m — in Mille Verba, Animus et Adfectūs
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | amor | amōrēs |
| genitive | amōris | amōrum |
| dative | amōrī | amōribus |
| accusative | amōrem | amōrēs |
| ablative | amōre | amōribus |
| vocative | amor | amōrēs |
Lewis & Short A Latin Dictionary, 1879
ămor (old form ămŏs, like honos, labos, colos, etc., Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 2; v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 170), ōris, m. amo,
I. love (to friends, parents, etc.; and also in a low sense; hence in gen., like amo, while caritas, like diligere, is esteem, regard, etc.; hence amor is used also of brutes, but caritas only of men; v amo init.):
Amicitiae caritate et amore cernuntur. Nam cum deorum, tum parentum, patriaeque cultus, eorumque hominum, qui aut sapientiā aut opibus excellunt, ad caritatem referri solet. Conjuges autem et liberi et fratres et alii, quos usus familiaritasque conjunxit, quamquam etiam caritate ipsā, tamen amore maxime continentur, Cic. Part. Or. 25, 88; cf. id. ib. 16, 56; Doed. Syn. IV. p. 100 (but amor is related to benevolentia as the cause to the effect, since benevolentia designates only an external, friendly treatment; but amor a real, internal love): amor, ex quo amicitia nominata, princeps est ad benevolentiam conjungendam, Cic. Am. 8, 26: nihil enim est, quod studio et benevolentiā, vel amore potius effici non possit, id. Fam. 3, 9; cf. Doed. Syn. IV. p. 105 (very freq. in all periods, and in every kind of style; in a low sense most freq. in the com. and eleg. poets, Petron., and similar authors; v. amo init.); constr. with in, erga, or the obj. gen. (with the gen. of the gerund, never in Cic., and perh. in no prose writer; but it is so found in Lucr., Ovid, and Hor.). I. Lit.: ab his initiis noster in te amor profectus, Cic. Fam. 13, 29:
si quid in te residet amoris erga me, id. ib. 5, 5: amori nostro (i. e. quo a te amamur) plusculum etiam, quam concedit veritas, largiare, id. ib. 5, 12; Postquam primus amor deceptam morte fefellit, Verg. A. 4, 17: amabilis super amorem mulierum, Vulg. 2 Reg. 1, 26: in paternitatis amore, brotherly love (Gr. φιλαδελφία), ib. 1 Pet. 1, 22; ib. 2 Pet. 1, 7 bis: amplecti aliquem amore, Cic. Att. 7, 1: habere amorem erga aliquem, id. ib. 9, 14: respondere amori amore, id. ib. 15, 21: conciliare amorem alicui, id. de Or. 2, 51 et saep.—Of sexual love, whether lawful or unlawful: Medea amore saevo saucia, Enn. Med. ap. Auct. ad Her. 2, 22 (as a transl. of the Gr. ἔρωτι θυμὸν ἐκπλαγεῖσʼ Ἰάσονος, Eur. Med. prol. 8): videbantur illi (septem anni) pauci dies prae amoris magnitudine, Vulg. Gen. 29, 20; 29, 30: is amore projecticiam illam deperit, Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 43: amore perdita est, id. Mil. 4, 6, 38: in amore haec omnia sunt vitia, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 14: aeterno devictus volnere amoris, Lucr. 1, 35: qui vitat amorem, id. 4, 1069: Nec te noster amor tenet? Verg. A. 4, 307; 4, 395; Ov. M. 4, 256: ne sit ancillae tibi amor pudori, Hor. C. 2, 4, 1: meretricis amore Sollicitus, id. S. 2, 3, 252: ut majus esset odium amore, quo ante dilexerat, Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 15: ambo vulnerati amore ejus, ib. Dan. 13, 10 al.—In both significations also in the plur.: amores hominum in te, Cic. Att. 5, 10: amores sancti, id. Fin. 3, 20, 68; cf. id. Tusc. 4, 34, 72: Ille meos, primus qui me sibi junxit, amores Abstulit, Verg. A. 4, 28: est is mihi in amoribus, i. e. valde a me amatur, Cic. Fam. 7, 32: meos amores eloquar, Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 2: meretricii amores, Ter. And. 5, 4, 10: quem amore venerio dilexerat, Nep. Paus. 4, 1: amores et hae deliciae, quae vocantur, Cic. Cael. 19: quando Dido tantos rumpi non speret amores, Verg. A. 4, 292: Tabuit ex illo dementer amoribus usa, Ov. M. 4, 259: insanos fateamur amores, id. ib. 9, 519 et saep.; Hor. C. 3, 21, 3 et saep.— II. Meton.
A. For the beloved object itself:
amores et deliciae tuae, Cic. Div. 1, 36; Pompeius, nostri amores, id. Att. 2, 19; 16, 6; and ironic.: sed redeo ad amores deliciasque nostras, L. Antonium, id. Phil. 6, 5; Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 79; Ov. M. 1, 617; 4, 137 al.—B. Personified: Amor, the god of love, Love, Cupid, Ἔρως:
O praeclaram emendatricem vitae poëticam, quae Amorem flagitii et levitatis auctorem in concilio deorum collocandum putet, Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: Deum esse Amorem turpis et vitio favens finxit libido, Sen. Phaedr. 195: Illum conjugem, quem Amor dederat, qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, vet. poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: Omnia vincit Amor, et nos cedamus Amori, Verg. E. 10, 69: Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia corpora cogis? id. A. 4, 412: Paret Amor dictis carae genetricis, id. ib. 1, 689: Amor non talia curat, id. E. 10, 28: nec quid Amor curat, Ov. M. 1, 480: Amori dare ludum, Hor. C. 3, 12, 1; Prop. 1, 2, 8: non tot sagittis, Spicula quot nostro pectore fixit Amor, id. 3, 4, 2: pharetratus, Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 22: Notaque purpureus tela resumit Amor, id. Am. 2, 9, 34: movit Amor gemmatas aureus alas, id. R. Am. 39 et saep.—Also in the plur., Cupids, Loves: corpora nudorum Amorum, Ov. M. 10, 516: lascivi Amores, Hor. C. 2, 11, 7: parvi Amores, Prop. 3, 1, 11: Amores volucres, Ov. Ep. 16, 201: pharetrati, id. R. Am. 519 al.—C. A strong, passionate longing for something, desire, lust:
consulatūs amor, Cic. Sull. 26, 73: gloriae, id. Arch. 11, 28: amicitiae, id. Tusc. 4, 33, 70: lactis, Verg. G. 3, 394: vini, Liv. 9, 18: auri, Verg. A. 1, 349: argenti, Hor. S. 2, 3, 78: nummi, Juv. 14, 138: laudum, Verg. A. 9, 197 et saep.: cognitionis, Cic. Fin. 4, 7, 18.—With gerund: edundi, Lucr. 4, 870: habendi, Ov. M. 1, 131, and Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 85: scribendi, id. S. 2, 1, 10.—Poet., with inf.: si tantus amor casus cognoscere nostros, Verg. A. 2, 10: seu rore pudico Castaliae flavos amor est tibi mergere crines, Stat. Th. 1, 698.—* D. Poet., a love-charm, philtre:
quaeritur et nascentis equi de fronte revolsus Et matri praereptus amor, Verg. A. 4, 516; upon which passage Serv. remarks: Secundum Plinium, qui dicit in Naturali Historiā (8, 42, 66, § 163 sqq.) pullos equinos habere in fronte quandam carnem, quam eis statim natis adimit mater; quam si quis forte praeripuerit, odit pullum et lac ei denegat; v. hippomanes.Origins
Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der. Proto-Italic *amāō Latin amō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin amor From amō + -or.
Northern Gallo-Romance
- Frenchamourfrom Old French amor
- Englishamourfrom Old French amor
- Englishamorfrom Old French amor
- Franco-Provençalamôr
- Middle Scotsamourfrom Old French amor
- Normanamourfrom Old French amor
Southern Gallo-Romance
- Catalanamor
- Occitanamor
Ibero-Romance
- Portugueseamorfrom Old Galician-Portuguese amor
- Spanishamorfrom Old Spanish amor
- Aragoneseamor
- Extremaduranamol
- Mozarabicאמורי
- Asturianamor
- Mirandeseamor
- Leoneseamor
- Galicianamorfrom Old Galician-Portuguese amor
- Ladinoamorfrom Old Spanish amor
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italianamore
- Corsicanamore
- Corsicanamori
- Dalmatianamaur
- Neapolitanammore
- Sicilianamuri
Borrowings
- Romanianamor
- Icelandicamor
Sardinian
- unknownamore
- unknownamori
- unknownmore
Padanian
- Emilianamåur
- Friulianamôr
- Istriotamure
- Piedmonteseamor
- Romagnolamôr
- Romanshamur
- Venetanamor