"amasius" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [aˈmaː.si.ʊs] [Classical-Latin], [aˈmaː.s̬i.us] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
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”). Etymology templates: {{m+|itc-pro|*-āsios}} Proto-Italic *-āsios, {{m+|itc-ola|amāscō|t=to start loving}} Old Latin amāscō (“to start loving”) Head templates: {{la-noun|amāsius<2>|f=amāsia}} amāsius m (genitive amāsiī or amāsī, feminine amāsia); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|amāsius<2>}} Forms: amāsius [canonical, masculine], amāsiī [genitive], amāsī [genitive], amāsia [feminine], no-table-tags [table-tags], amāsius [nominative, singular], amāsiī [nominative, plural], amāsiī [genitive, singular], amāsī [genitive, singular], amāsiōrum [genitive, plural], amāsiō [dative, singular], amāsiīs [dative, plural], amāsium [accusative, singular], amāsiōs [accusative, plural], amāsiō [ablative, singular], amāsiīs [ablative, plural], amāsie [singular, vocative], amāsiī [plural, vocative], amāsiō [alternative]
  1. (pre-classical and post-classical, rare) a male lover Tags: declension-2, rare Synonyms: amātor Derived forms: amāsiunculus Related terms: amāsia, amāsiuncula
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      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "amasio"
    },
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      ],
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  "etymology_text": "From amō (“to love”), perhaps suffixed with -āsius, dialectal unrhotacized variant of -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āsios; its post-classical variant amāsiō is secondary.\nAlternatively, it could be from Old Latin amāscō (“to start loving”).",
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        "masculine"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "amāsiī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
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    {
      "form": "amāsia",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
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      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
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    {
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      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "form": "amāsiō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
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    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "amāsiīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "amāsie",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsiī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsiō",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "amāsius<2>",
        "f": "amāsia"
      },
      "expansion": "amāsius m (genitive amāsiī or amāsī, feminine amāsia); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "amāsius<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Love",
          "orig": "la:Love",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "la:People",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "amāsiunculus"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Now those finicky town bed-hoppers\nwith this one stroke shall I send adrift and toss them all outside",
          "ref": "c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 3.1.14–15",
          "roman": "hoc ictu exponam atque omnis eiciam foras",
          "text": "nunc ego istos mundulos urbanos amasios",
          "translation": "Now those finicky town bed-hoppers\nwith this one stroke shall I send adrift and toss them all outside",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "That dolphins are affectionate and amorous is shown, not only by ancient history, but also by tales of recent date.",
          "ref": "c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.8.1",
          "text": "Delphinos venerios esse et amasios non modo historiae veteres, sed recentes quoque memoriae declarant.",
          "translation": "That dolphins are affectionate and amorous is shown, not only by ancient history, but also by tales of recent date.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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      ],
      "id": "en-amasius-la-noun-Kofd-Pg2",
      "links": [
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ],
        [
          "lover",
          "lover"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "pre-classical and post-classical",
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        "(pre-classical and post-classical, rare) a male lover"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "amāsia"
        },
        {
          "word": "amāsiuncula"
        }
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        {
          "word": "amātor"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[aˈmaː.si.ʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[aˈmaː.s̬i.us]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "amasius"
}
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "amāsiunculus"
    }
  ],
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      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "amasio"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
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    }
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      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "t": "to start loving"
      },
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      "name": "m+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From amō (“to love”), perhaps suffixed with -āsius, dialectal unrhotacized variant of -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āsios; its post-classical variant amāsiō is secondary.\nAlternatively, it could be from Old Latin amāscō (“to start loving”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "amāsius",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsiī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsia",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsius",
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      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "amāsiī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "amāsiī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "amāsī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
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      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
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      "form": "amāsiō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "amāsiīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsium",
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      "tags": [
        "accusative",
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      "form": "amāsiōs",
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      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "amāsiō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsiīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsie",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsiī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amāsiō",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "amāsius<2>",
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      },
      "expansion": "amāsius m (genitive amāsiī or amāsī, feminine amāsia); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "amāsius<2>"
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      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
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  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "amāsia"
    },
    {
      "word": "amāsiuncula"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin 4-syllable words",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin masculine nouns",
        "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
        "Latin nouns",
        "Latin second declension nouns",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Latin terms with rare senses",
        "Old Latin",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "la:Love",
        "la:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Now those finicky town bed-hoppers\nwith this one stroke shall I send adrift and toss them all outside",
          "ref": "c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 3.1.14–15",
          "roman": "hoc ictu exponam atque omnis eiciam foras",
          "text": "nunc ego istos mundulos urbanos amasios",
          "translation": "Now those finicky town bed-hoppers\nwith this one stroke shall I send adrift and toss them all outside",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "That dolphins are affectionate and amorous is shown, not only by ancient history, but also by tales of recent date.",
          "ref": "c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.8.1",
          "text": "Delphinos venerios esse et amasios non modo historiae veteres, sed recentes quoque memoriae declarant.",
          "translation": "That dolphins are affectionate and amorous is shown, not only by ancient history, but also by tales of recent date.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
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      ],
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          "lover"
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      ],
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        "(pre-classical and post-classical, rare) a male lover"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "amātor"
        }
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        "declension-2",
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  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "[aˈmaː.si.ʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[aˈmaː.s̬i.us]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "amasius"
}

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