amoenus

== Latin == === Etymology === The origin remains unexplained. Possibly from amo (“I love”), mino (“I drive forth”), or loaned from a substrate. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈmoe̯.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈmɛː.nus] === Adjective === amoenus (feminine amoena, neuter amoenum, comparative amoenior, superlative amoenissimus, adverb amoenē or amoeniter); first/second-declension adjective charming, pleasant, agreeable, amenable lovely, delightful, beautiful ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Synonyms ==== (agreeable): acceptus, dulcis, grātus, iūcundus ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: amè English: amene French: amène Italian: ameno Portuguese: ameno Spanish: ameno ==== See also ==== amō === References === “amoenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “amoenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “amoenus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 39-40