amor

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.

• moar, roam, Maor, Roma, Mora, Oram, Omar, armo, roma, Ramo, mora, Armo

Inherited from Latin amōrem.

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

amor m (plural amores)

1. love

• amar
• ñamorar

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈmor]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈmo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈmoɾ]

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• Rhymes: -oɾ

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

1. love

   Antonym: odi

• amar

• “amor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “amor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “amor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Spanish amor (“love”).

amor

1. love

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

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

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

• por mor de

• amar
• namorar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “amor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “amor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “amor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “amor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “amor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “amor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Learned borrowing from Latin amor.

amor m (genitive singular amors, no plural)

1. (rare) love

   Synonyms: ást, kærleiki

• amorslegur

From Latin amor.

amor

1. love

amor m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of amore

• Roma, armo, armò, maro, marò, mora, orma, ramo, ramò, roma

Inherited from Old Spanish amor, from Latin amōrem.

amor m (Latin spelling)

1. love

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mor/, [ˈämɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mor/, [ˈäːmor]

amō +‎ -or.

• (Cupid): Amor

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.)

Third-declension noun.

From Proto-Italic *amāor, from *amāō.

amor

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

• “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

• armō, mora, Rōma

Inherited from Latin amōrem.

amor m (in the plural amores)

1. love

• AEDLL

• amour (Mistralian)

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

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amor m (plural amors)

1. love

• amorós
• enamorar
• enamorat

• amur

Inherited from Latin amōrem.

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

1. love

• 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

• amant
• amoros

• Middle French: amour
  • French: amour
  • → Middle English: amour, amoure, amur
    • English: amour, amor
    • Middle Scots: amour
• Norman: amour

Inherited from Latin amōrem.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmoɾ/

amor m (plural amors)

1. love
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 80 (facsimile):

     De graça chẽa e damoꝛ / de deus acoꝛre nos ſennoꝛ.

     Of grace full and of love / of God, come to our aid Lady.

• Galician: amor
• Portuguese: amor

Inherited from Latin amōrem.

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 [...].

• Occitan: amor

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

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: a‧mor

amor m (plural amores)

1. love

   Antonyms: desamor, ódio

   • 1607, Luís Vaz de Camões, Rimas, Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver:

     Amor he hum fogo que arde ſem ſe ver

     Love is a fire that burns but is not seen

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.

• Macanese: amôr

• “amor”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “amor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

• Roma, roma

• амор (amor) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from Latin amōrem, French amour, Italian amore.

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

amor n (plural amoruri)

1. love

   Synonyms: iubire, dragoste

• amor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Inherited from Latin amōrem.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmoɾ/ [aˈmoɾ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: a‧mor

amor m (plural amores)

1. love

   Antonyms: odio, desamor

2. love affair

   Synonym: aventura

• “amor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Spanish amor. Doublet of amores.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmoɾ/ [ʔɐˈmoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: a‧mor

amór (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜓᜇ᜔)

1. love; affair

   Synonyms: ibigan, pag-iibigan, mahalan, pagmamahalan

2. esteem; affection

   Synonyms: pagkakagusto, paghanga, amistad

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