adamo Latin · revision 33818

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *h₃mh₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈa.da.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈaː.da.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adamō''' (present infinitive adamāre, perfect active adamāvī, supine adamātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|amō|t2=to love]], with ⟨ad-⟩ in an intensive sense.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|amō]] to [[itc-pro|*ama-|t=to take, hold]] and [[ine-pro|*h₃mh₃-|t=to take hold of]], and explains the Latin meaning as a development from “take someone's hand” to “treat as a friend”; he compares [[grc|ὄμνυμι|tr=ómnumi|t=to swear]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds nothing before Cicero,^(TLL) who in the ''Verrines'' uses it of a man who saw some very beautiful and very old statues and set his heart on them, and of anything that took his fancy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL notes that the perfect forms greatly prevail and that the sense “to come to love” seems to have grown from them; the present is rare, as in Cicero's ''De finibus'', Columella, Petronius and Pliny.^(TLL) Lewis & Short add that in Cicero it is always perfect or pluperfect.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used of loving or admiring persons, as Nepos says that Dion admired and loved Plato so much that he gave himself up to him, and of qualities and pursuits, as Cicero's man who had come to love the endurance in Socratic talk.^(OLD 2012) Mela uses it of the Moon falling in love with Endymion, and the elder Seneca of a wife's adulterous love.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives “love greatly, fall in love”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of coveting statues and of loving a virtue.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos, of Dion's love for Plato.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43/44 AD – Mela, of the Moon's love for Endymion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, in the present tense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To come to love or [[m|en|admire]] greatly (persons, qualities, pursuits).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To fall in love with; to love [[m|en|adulterously]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To form a desire for, [[m|en|covet]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adamator]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[amō]]

+ * [[amor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}