amorosus

amorosus

Latin

Etymology

From amor.

Adjective

amorōsus (feminine amorōsa, neuter amorōsum, comparative amorōsior, superlative amorōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Medieval Latin) amorous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	amorōsus	amorōsa	amorōsum		amorōsī	amorōsae	amorōsa
Genitive	amorōsī	amorōsae	amorōsī		amorōsōrum	amorōsārum	amorōsōrum
Dative	amorōsō		amorōsō		amorōsīs
Accusative	amorōsum	amorōsam	amorōsum		amorōsōs	amorōsās	amorōsa
Ablative	amorōsō	amorōsā	amorōsō		amorōsīs
Vocative	amorōse	amorōsa	amorōsum		amorōsī	amorōsae	amorōsa

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: amoroso
    • → Romanian: amoros
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: amoreus
    • Middle French: amoureux
      • French: amoureux
    • Norman: amouotheux
    • → Middle English: amorous, amerous, amerouse, amerowse, amerus, amirous, amoros, amorows, amourous
      • English: amorous
      • Scots: amorous
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: amorós
  • Occitan: amorós
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: amoroso
  • Portuguese: amoroso
  • Spanish: amoroso

References

• amorosus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)