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English
Noun
amidos
- plural of amido
Anagrams
Old Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin invītus, an adverbialisation of a nominative adjective. Often found with a preceding a or de, much like the Old Galician-Portuguese envidos~anvidos.
/nβ/ merged with /mb/ early on (hence vacillating spellings like convenir~combenir). The morpheme boundary *em-bidos, already shaky in the absence of a word such as *bidos, collapsed once contamination with the preceding preposition a resulted in ambidos, no longer analysable as a prefixed form. (Although a prefix a- did exist, it could not be seen as a constituent of ambidos, since that would imply a following element with the impossible onset /mb/.) Now stranded in the interior of the word, /mb/ was subjected to the same intervocalic attrition seen in Latin palumbēs, lumbus > Spanish paloma, lomo.
Pronunciation
Adverb
amidos
- unwillingly, reluctantly
- Ca. 1230–1237, Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos, 104
Ixió del monesterio el sennor a amidos
Despidióse de todos los sus fraires queridos...- Sir left the monastery reluctantly
He bade farewell to all his dear fellow-monks...
- Ca. 1250, anonymous, Libro de los buenos proverbios que dijeron los filósofos y sabios antiguos (ed. by Harlam Sturm, 1971)
Yo non sé ál que vos diga, mas se que me sacaran a amidos deste sieglo, y visque en el sieglo y saldre d'él amidos.- I do not know what else to say to all of you, but I will be taken out unwillingly from this world; I lived in this world, and I will leave it unwillingly.
References
- Ford, Jeremiah Denis Matthias. 1903. Old Spanish etymologies. Modern Philology 1. Page 54.
- Gottfried Baist, "Romanische Sprachwissenschaft B. Die Romanischen Sprachen. 7. Die Spanische Sprache", Grundriss Der Romanischen Philologie , 1904-1906, page 904
- Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “amidos”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 244
Portuguese
Noun
amidos
- plural of amido