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English
Etymology
From the Latin amāsius (“a lover”).
Noun
amasius (plural amasii)
- (rare, literary) One’s beloved; a lover.
- 1607?, Edward Topsell, The Hiſtory of Four-footed Beaſts and Serpents (1658), “Of the Lion”, page 369:
- Ovid hath a witty fiction of one Phyllius, who fell ſo deeply in love with a little boy, that at his pleaſure he took many wilde Beaſts, Birds, and Lions, and tamed them to the delight of his Amaſius: at length the inſatiable Boy required him to do the like by a Bull, which he had overcome, but Phyllius denying that requeſt, the Boy preſently caſt himſelf down from a Rock, and was afterward turned into a Swan.
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Latin
Etymology
From amō (“I love”).
Pronunciation
Noun
amāsius m (genitive amāsiī or amāsī); second declension
- a lover
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Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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