amasius

== English == === Etymology === From the Latin amāsius (“a lover”). === Noun === amasius (plural amasii) (rare, literary) One’s beloved; a lover. 1607?, Edward Topsell, The Hiſtory of Four-footed Beaſts and Serpents (1658), “Of the Lion”, page 369: Ovid hath a witty fiction of one Phyllius, who fell ſo deeply in love with a little boy, that at his pleaſure he took many wilde Beaſts, Birds, and Lions, and tamed them to the delight of his Amaſius: at length the inſatiable Boy required him to do the like by a Bull, which he had overcome, but Phyllius denying that requeſt, the Boy preſently caſt himſelf down from a Rock, and was afterward turned into a Swan. === Anagrams === amusias == Latin == === Alternative forms === amāsiō === Etymology === From amō (“to love”), perhaps suffixed with -āsius, dialectal unrhotacized variant of -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āsios; its post-classical variant amāsiō is secondary. Alternatively, it could be from Old Latin amāscō (“to start loving”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈmaː.si.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈmaː.s̬i.us] === Noun === amāsius m (genitive amāsiī or amāsī, feminine amāsia); second declension (pre-classical and post-classical, rare) a male lover Synonym: amātor ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Italian: amasio → English: amasius Portuguese: amásio === References === === Further reading === “ămāsĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ămāsĭus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 109/2. “amāsius” on page 113/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)