adamo

== Latin == === Etymology === From ad- (“near, at; towards, to”) + amō (“love”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.da.moː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.da.mo] === Verb === adamō (present infinitive adamāre, perfect active adamāvī, supine adamātum); first conjugation (to love emphatically): to love ardently, deeply, earnestly, greatly or truly, to love with all one's heart; to be devoted, to be enamored, to be infatuated Synonyms: ārdeō, īnfatuor, ūrō (to desire emphatically): to covet, to crave, to desire, to long for, to want Synonyms: concupiō, cupiō (to conceive love or desire): to become enamored, to become captivated, to become devoted, to fall in love Synonyms: ārdēscō, exārdēscō ==== Conjugation ==== In Classical Latin, adamō was only used in the perfect and pluperfect tenses. 1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested. ==== Descendants ==== Spanish: adamar === References === “adamo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “adamo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “adamo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. == Spanish == === Verb === adamo first-person singular present indicative of adamar