amatio

From amō + -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈmaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈmat.t͡si.o]

amātiō f (genitive amātiōnis); third declension

1. (Plautine) lovemaking; a manifestation of love
   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 5.4.32–35:

     Spectātōrēs, ad pudīcōs mōrēs facta haec fābula est,
     neque in hāc subigitātiōnēs sunt neque ūlla amātiō
     nec puerī suppositiō nec argentī circumductiō,
     neque ubi amāns adulēscēns scortum līberet clam suom patrem.

     Spectators, this play was made with regard to chaste mores:
     neither in it are lascivious caresses nor any lovemaking,
     nor the substitution of a child, nor the swindling of money,
     nor where a loving youth frees a prostitute secretly from his father.

Third-declension noun.

• amātor
• amor

• “amatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• amatio in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung