amo

amo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Amo.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Amo terms

Cognate with Saho amo.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmo/ [ʔʌˈmɔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧mo

amó f (plural amoomá f)

1. head
2. intelligence
3. summit, top
4. (collective) hair

Declension of amó
absolutive	amó
predicative	amó
subjective	amó
genitive	amó
Postpositioned forms l-case amól k-case amók t-case amót h-case amóh

• (hair): xágor

• (diminutive) amóyta, amoytá

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “amo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

amo

1. monkey

• among

Borrowed from Spanish amo (“master of the house”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔamo/ [ˈʔa.mo]
• Hyphenation: a‧mo

amo (Basahan spelling ᜀᜋᜓ)

1. master; boss
2. pet owner; caretaker (of an animal)

   Synonym: kag-ataman

From Greater Central Proto-Philippine *amúʔ. Compare Cebuano amo (“monkey”), Cuyunon amoy (“small monkey”), Hiligaynon amo (“monkey”), Tagalog amo (“small monkey”) and Tausug amu'.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmoʔ/ [ʔaˈmoʔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧mo

amô (Basahan spelling ᜀᜋᜓ)

1. (Naga) monkey

   Synonyms: kabalang, ukay

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈa.mu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈa.mo]

Back-formation from ama (“mistress”).

amo m (plural amos, feminine ama)

1. owner (of a piece of land or real estate, a business, a dog, etc.)
2. master

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

amo

1. first-person singular present indicative of amar

• “amo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

amo

1. to mow

amo

1. may
2. to let
   • 2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Könupin 58:7-8, page 775:

     Amo repwe mȯronȯ ussun chok konik mi chok nichino. Amo repwe pachchacheno ussun chok ekkewe fetin won aan. Amo repwe ussun chok ekkewe pwechar sia puriretiw. Amo repwe ussun chok emon mönukon mi mȧ nupwen a uputiw.

     Let them disappear like water leaking. Let them stick like the grass on the ground. Let them be like the snail we step on. Let them be like a newborn who is dead when he is born.

amo

1. Alternative spelling of ahmo

amo

1. father

From ami +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): [ˈamo]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -amo
• Hyphenation: a‧mo

amo (accusative singular amon, plural amoj, accusative plural amojn)

1. love

   Kiu dissemas amon, tiu rikoltos la samon.

   Whoever sows love will harvest the same.

   —Proverb by Morteza Mirbaghian

   • Edmond Privat, Vivo de Zamenhof, Ĉapitro 2,

     Similaj amoj inter filo kaj patrino ĉe multaj geniuloj estas ofte rimarkeblaj. Pope, Musset, Lamartine adoris la patrinon sian, kaj al ŝi tre multon ŝuldis. Same Zamenhof.

     Similar close relationships (lit. loves) between sons and mothers can often been seen in geniuses. Pope, Musset and Lamartine all adored their mothers and owed much to them. The same was true of Zamenhof.

amo (Forézien, Savoyard)

1. Alternative form of amar (“to love”)

• amo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

amo ngo (plural amóóji)

1. (Pulaar) flood

• D. Osborn, D. Dwyer, et J. Donohoe, Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français: Une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes, suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993.

From ama (“mistress”), from Hispanic Late Latin amma, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *amma- (“mother”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈamo̝/

amo m (plural amos, feminine ama, feminine plural amas)

1. (archaic) tutor

   Synonym: titor

2. (archaic) steward

   Synonym: mordomo

3. (archaic) landlord
   • 1814, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Aos coruñeses:

     En certa aldea traballou o ano pasado certo labrador certa porcion de terra: chegada a recolleita foi a segar, e colleu vinte pares de monllos, deles pagou o señor cura duos pares do desmo, pagou nove o señor amo; logo veu o señor cura, e rapoulle cinco polas toucas, quedaronlle catro, mallounos, e non lle deron un ferrado

     in certain village last year certain farmer farmed certain apportion of land: as the harvest came he went to reap; he collected twenty pairs of sheaves; of them he paid two pairs to the priest for the tithe, nine he paid to the landlord; then the priest came again and snatched five for the ecclesiastical services; he was left with four; he threshed them and obtained less than half a bushel

4. master

   Synonyms: dono, patrón, propietario

• amádego

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

amo

1. first-person singular present indicative of amar

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

• IPA^(key): /ʔá.móː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔá.móː]

amō m (possessed form amon)

1. sound; noise

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.mo/, [ˈɐ.mo]

amo

1. burden

amo

1. (transitive) to carry (on the shoulders)

From Greater Central Proto-Philippine *amúʔ. Compare Cebuano amo (“monkey”), Cuyunon amoy (“small monkey”), Tagalog amo (“small monkey”) and Tausug amu'.

amo

1. monkey

Borrowed from Esperanto amo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.mo/

amo (plural ami)

1. love

• suamo

From Riau Malay [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈamo/
• Hyphenation: amo

amo

1. white mite in rice husks.

• “amo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Inherited from Latin hāmus. Compare Spanish hamo, French hameçon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.mo/
• Rhymes: -amo
• Hyphenation: à‧mo

amo m (plural ami)

1. hook
2. (figurative) bait

• abboccare all'amo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

amo

1. first-person singular present indicative of amare

• amo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• -oma, moa

• amu (Eastern Kata-vari, Western Kata-vari)

From Proto-Nuristani *amākā, probably from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dmáH (“at home”), from Proto-Indo-European *démh₁, locative singular of *dṓm.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmo/

amo f (Kamviri)^[1]

1. house
2. room

amo

1. master

Inherited from Proto-Cariban *amo; compare Trió amo, Wayana amo, Ye'kwana aamo, Yao (South America) ouamonu.

• IPA^(key): [aːmo]

amo

1. (transitive) to weep for, to cry for, to mourn (someone)
2. (transitive) to cry vengeance on

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 223
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “amo”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 81; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[4], Paris, 1956, page 83

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

amo m (Latin spelling)

1. boss, owner

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.moː/, [ˈämoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mo/, [ˈäːmo]

Inherited from Proto-Italic *amō, see the Proto-Italic entry for more information.

amō (present infinitive amāre, perfect active amāvī, supine amātum); first conjugation

1. to love

   Synonym: dīligō

   Antonyms: exsecror, abhorreō, abōminor, dēspuō, odiō

   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria I.iii:

     Tū mē amās, egō tē amō; meritō id fierī uterque exīstumat.

     You love me, I love you; and each of us believes it to be well-deserved.

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Letters to Lucilius IX.6:

     Sī vīs amārī, amā.

     Love if you wish to be loved.

2. to be fond of, like, admire

   Synonyms: dīligō, probō, approbō, comprobō

   Antonyms: improbō, reprobō

3. to be pleased by or with (someone or something) for (a particular reason); to derive pleasure from...(for...), delight in...(for...)

   Synonym: dēlector

   • 17 BCE, Horace, Carmen Saeculare :

     ...hīc magnōs potius triumphōs, hīc amēs dīcī pater atque prī̆nceps, neu sinās Mēdōs equitāre inultōs // tē duce, Caesar.

     ...rather, may you delight in these great triumphs, to be called father and the first man (of state), and may you not allow the Medes to ride unpunished while you lead, Caesar.

4. (with sē) to be pleased (with oneself), to be content
5. (with infinitive) to be accustomed (to), enjoy an activity

   Synonyms: assuefio, fruor

6. to be thankful, grateful to, feel obliged for a service
   • c. 185 BCE – 159 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, The Eunuch :

     Ō Thāis mea, meum sāvium, quid agitur? Ecquid nōs amās dē fīdīcinā istāc?

     O Thais, my sweetie, what's happening? Are you grateful to us for that harpist?

   • ~160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, The Brothers :

     Bene facis, meritō tē amō.

     You're very kind, I'm rightly obliged to you.

   • 68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum CXXIII, (The phrase raudusculo Numeriano, "Numerius' bit of coin", here refers to a small monetary debt assumedly having been owed by Cicero to Numerius, and paid for Cicero by Atticus):

     Dē raudusculō Numeriānō multum tē amō.

     Regarding Numerius' bit of coin I am very much obliged to you.

The ancient Romans were accustomed to saying "I shall / will love you!" ("tē amābō" / "amābō tē") in supplication, and "I love you!" ("tē amō") when they were expressing gratitude. Latin "amāre" has a broader semantic range than English "to love", and so can be a semantically "weaker" or, perhaps, less intense verb. Amāre was therefore appropriate for speech etiquette in situations of supplication or the expression of gratitude. Because of the semantic differences between the Latin and English verbs, and especially of the narrower semantic range of English "to love", a literal translation into English will in such cases (involving supplication or gratitude) inevitably appear strange. Accordingly, translators have ever resorted to expressions like "appreciate", "be thankful" and "be obliged" as a workaround, but in such cases the Romans actually meant "love" as they construed that emotion.

Conjugation of amō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	amō	amās	amat	amāmus	amātis	amant
	imperfect	amābam	amābās	amābat	amābāmus	amābātis	amābant
	future	amābō	amābis	amābit	amābimus	amābitis	amābunt
	perfect	amāvī	amāvistī, amāstī2	amāvit, amāt2	amāvimus, amāmus2	amāvistis, amāstis2	amāvērunt, amāvēre, amārunt2
	pluperfect	amāveram, amāram2	amāverās, amārās2	amāverat, amārat2	amāverāmus, amārāmus2	amāverātis, amārātis2	amāverant, amārant2
	future perfect	amāverō, amārō2	amāveris, amāris2	amāverit, amārit2	amāverimus, amārimus2	amāveritis, amāritis2	amāverint, amārint2
	sigmatic future1	amāssō	amāssis	amāssit	amāssimus	amāssitis	amāssint
passive	present	amor	amāris, amāre	amātur	amāmur	amāminī	amantur
	imperfect	amābar	amābāris, amābāre	amābātur	amābāmur	amābāminī	amābantur
	future	amābor	amāberis, amābere	amābitur	amābimur	amābiminī	amābuntur
	perfect	amātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	amātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	amātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	amem	amēs	amet	amēmus	amētis	ament
	imperfect	amārem	amārēs	amāret	amārēmus	amārētis	amārent
	perfect	amāverim, amārim2	amāverīs, amārīs2	amāverit, amārit2	amāverīmus, amārīmus2	amāverītis, amārītis2	amāverint, amārint2
	pluperfect	amāvissem, amāssem2	amāvissēs, amāssēs2	amāvisset, amāsset2	amāvissēmus, amāssēmus2	amāvissētis, amāssētis2	amāvissent, amāssent2
	sigmatic aorist1	amāssim	amāssīs	amāssīt	amāssīmus	amāssītis	amāssint
passive	present	amer	amēris, amēre	amētur	amēmur	amēminī	amentur
	imperfect	amārer	amārēris, amārēre	amārētur	amārēmur	amārēminī	amārentur
	perfect	amātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	amātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	amā	—	—	amāte	—
	future	—	amātō	amātō	—	amātōte	amantō
passive	present	—	amāre	—	—	amāminī	—
	future	—	amātor	amātor	—	—	amantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		amāre	amāvisse, amāsse2	amātūrum esse	amārī	amātum esse	amātum īrī
participles		amāns	—	amātūrus	—	amātus	amandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		amandī	amandō	amandum	amandō	amātum	amātū

¹At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
²At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• amoenus

• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[5], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to love some one very dearly, with all one's heart: aliquem toto pectore, ut dicitur, amare (Leg. 18. 49)
    
  • to love deeply: aliquem ex animo or ex animi sententia amare (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 5)
    

See hama.

amō f (genitive amōnis); third declension

1. medieval spelling of hama

Third-declension noun.

• “amo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amo 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)
• amo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to love some one very dearly, with all one's heart: aliquem toto pectore, ut dicitur, amare (Leg. 18. 49)
    
  • to love deeply: aliquem ex animo or ex animi sententia amare (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 5)
    
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “amo”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 41/2

amo

1. monkey

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hamuk.

amo

1. carry (on a litter)
2. charge, attack

amo (transitive animate, 3s-3' independent form odamwaan, changed conjunct form emwaad, 2s-3 imperative form amo or amwi, reduplicated form ayamo)

1. eat

   Ingii-amwaa wiishkobi-bakwezhigan gii-tibishkaayaan.

   I ate cake when I had my birthday.

• miijin
• wiisini

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/amo-vta

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmu, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mu
• Hyphenation: a‧mo

From Old Galician-Portuguese amo, from ama.

amo m (plural amos, feminine ama, feminine plural amas)

1. master

   Synonym: mestre

2. boss

   Synonyms: chefe, patrão

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

amo

1. first-person singular present indicative of amar

Cognate with Afar amó.

• IPA^(key): /ˈamo/
• Hyphenation: a‧mo

amo m (plural amom m)

1. head
2. chief
3. top, summit

Declension of amo
absolutive	amo
subjective	ami
genitive	ami

• Moreno Vergari, Roberta Vergari (2007) “amo”, in A basic Saho-English-Italian Dictionary (revised version)

• IPA^(key): /âːmo/
• Hyphenation: a‧mo

ȃmo (Cyrillic spelling а̑мо)

1. hither, here
2. this way

• ȃmoder, òvāmo, sȉm, sȉmo

amo

1. (intransitive) to come

• IPA^(key): /ˈamo/ [ˈa.mo]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -amo
• Syllabification: a‧mo

Back-formation from ama.

amo m (plural amos, feminine ama, feminine plural amas)

1. master (man who owns a slave)
2. owner, master, keeper (man who owns an animal)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

amo

1. first-person singular present indicative of amar

• “amo”, 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 amo (“master of the house”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔamo/ [ˈʔaː.mo]
• Rhymes: -amo
• Syllabification: a‧mo

amo (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜓ)

1. master; employer; boss

   Synonyms: hepe, panginoon

2. pet owner; caretaker (of an animal)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔamoʔ/ [ˈʔaː.moʔ]
• Rhymes: -amoʔ
• Syllabification: a‧mo

amò (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜓ)

1. gentleness; docility
2. tameness (of animals)
3. supplication; coaxing

From Greater Central Proto-Philippine *amúʔ. Compare Bikol Central amo (“monkey”), Cuyunon amoy (“small monkey”), Hiligaynon amo (“monkey”) and Tausug amu'.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmoʔ/ [ʔɐˈmoʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: a‧mo

amô (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜓ)

1. a type of small monkey
2. (Marinduque, in general) monkey

   Synonyms: unggoy, tsonggo, matsing

• alupag-amo

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.mo/

amo

1. the breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis)

• → Gorontalo: amo

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔa.mo/

amo

1. (stative) to be thick, viscous (of liquids)

Conjugation of amo
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	toamo	foamo	miamo
2nd	noamo	niamo
3rd	Masculine	oamo	iamo, yoamo†
Feminine	moamo
Neuter	iamo
† - archaic

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

amo

1. Not, negation.

• Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos, segunda impresión edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, published 1971

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *ama-h.

IPA^(key): /amo/

amo

1. father

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.mo/

amo

1. reason

   isapama amo... ― why is it that... (literally, “why is the reason...”)

amo

1. (subordinating) because, since (literally, "the reason is")

   Synonyms: karena, sebap, serta

amo

1. the liver

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[7], Pacific linguistics

Variant orthographies

ALIV	amo
Brazilian standard	amo
New Tribes	amo

• IPA^(key): [amo]

amo (possessed amodü)

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) Alternative form of amö (“hand”)