amative
adjective
Lara Biyuts Mathew N. Schmalz
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The Lovely History of Amative
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…. Elizabeth Barrett Browning came up with eight ways to express her love in her poem; we offer six ways, or rather six words, to describe those expressions of love. Besides the familiar "amorous" and "amative," there's "amatory," "amoristic," "amatorious," and "amatorial." What we love about this list is that all the words stem from Latin amare, meaning "to love." "Amative," which was first introduced in 1636, was modeled on Medieval Latin amativus, from the past participle of "amare." "Amorous," on the other hand, goes back to Middle English and came from Medieval Latin amorosus, an adjective based on the noun "amor" ("love").
Word History
borrowed from Medieval Latin amātīvus, from Latin amāt-, stem in nominal derivation of amāre "to have affection for, love" + -īvus -ive — more at amateur
1633, in the meaning defined at sense 2
- incinerates
- incinerating
- incineration
- incinerations
- incinerator
- incinerators
- incing
- incipiative
- incipience
- incipiences
- incipiencies
- incipiency
- incipient
- incipient species
- incipient wilting
- incipiently
- incipit
- incipits
- incircumscription
- incircumspect
- incircumspection
- incircumspectly
- incis
- incisal
- incise