Reconstruction:Latin/amorosus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From amōr- (“love”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix). Eventually surfaces in thirteenth-century Medieval Latin as amōrōsus,[1] a borrowing from one or more of the Romance forms below.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
*amōrōsus (feminine *amōrōsa, neuter *amōrōsum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
Descendants[edit]
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Romansch: marus
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References[edit]
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “amorōsus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 476