amore

Ultimately from Latin amōrem.

• IPA^(key): /amoɾe/ [a.mo.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -oɾe, -e
• Hyphenation: a‧mo‧re

amore inan

1. (rare) love, affection

   Synonyms: maitasun, amodio

• In modern usage this term is almost exclusively found as part of the verb amore eman (“to give up”) and related terms.

• “amore”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “amore”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Inherited from Latin amōrem.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmo.re/^[1]

• Audio (l'amore):

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophone: Amore
• Rhymes: -ore
• Hyphenation: a‧mó‧re

amore m (countable and uncountable, plural amori)

1. love

   Alternative form: (apocopic) amor

2. (euphemistic, uncountable) sex, sex act
   • 2011, Raphael Gualazzi, “Follia d'amore [Madness of love]”, in Reality and Fantasy:

     Vorrei far l'amore con te.

     I would like to make love to you.

     (literally, “I would like to make the love with you.”)

• → Greek: αμόρε (amóre)
• → Portuguese: amore

• amore in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• amore in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• amore in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• amore in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• amore in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• amore in Treccani.it – Sinonimi e Contrari (2003), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• amore in Treccani.it – Thesaurus (2018), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• amore in Treccani.it – Enciclopedia Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Eramo, Morea, Ormea, amerò

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈmoː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈmɔː.re]

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-West Germanic *amaʀā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.mo.re/
• Rhymes: -ɑ.mo.re

amore f

1. a kind of bird, probably the ammer

Weak n-stem:

• clodhamer
• emer/omer
• ōsle

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

Borrowed from Italian amore. Doublet of amor.

amore m or f (plural amores)

1. (colloquial, as a term of address) love, sweetie, darling

   Bom dia, amore.

   Good morning, love.

• “amore”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026