amative
English
WOTD – 14 February 2006
Etymology
From Medieval Latin amātīvus, from Latin amātus, perfect passive participle of amō (“love”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈam.ə.tɪv/
Audio (UK) (file)
Adjective
amative (not comparable)
- Pertaining to love; amorous.
- 1898, His amative enthusiasm, at which he is himself laughing, and his clever, imaginative, humorous ways, contrast strongly with the sincere tenderness and dignified quietness of the woman. : George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 151:
- He was also confounded by its implication in Podson. Damme, the idea of that runt of a feller makin' up to a woman old enough to be his mother! Bradly banged pots about the stove, preparing the evening meal, to relieve himself of an outraged sense of propriety at Podson's amative presumption.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin, OCLC 17841394, page 97:
- His endearments were not amative or effete, but manly like Churchill's, and gave one a sense of being singled out, of having value.
Derived terms
- amatively
- amativeness
Translations
pertaining to love
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Italian
Adjective
amative f
- feminine plural of amativo
Anagrams
- amatevi