amore

From Latin amor, amōrem.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmo.re/, [äˈmoːre]

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• Rhymes: -ore
• Hyphenation: a‧mó‧re

amore m (plural amori)

1. love

   Follia d'amore ― Madness of love

   Vorrei far l'amore con te. ― I would make love to you.

• Greek: αμόρε n (amóre)

• amerò

amōre

1. ablative singular of amor
   • c. 29 bc, Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgicon, III.285

     fvgit inreparabile tempvs
     singvla dvm capti circvmvectamvr amore

     Irretrievable time flies away while, enthralled by love, we are carried about from one thing to another.

From Proto-Germanic *amazô, related to Proto-Germanic *amslǭ (whence Old English ōsle).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmore/

amore f

1. A kind of bird, probably the ammer

• clodhamer
• emer/omer
• ōsle

• Middle English: *amere, *amre, *ambre
  • English: *ambre, *amber, ammer
  • ⇒ Middle English: *yelwamre, *yelambre, *yelwambre
    • ⇒ English: yelambre, yelamber, yellowhammer