inamorato
/ɪˌnaməˈrɑːtəʊ
/noun (plural inamoratos)
A person’s male lover: her days were spent dallying with her inamorato...
- As for the nomadic spirit of the poet, I remember wresting my partner away from an accountant inamorato, donkeys ago, telling her she'd live the romantic rover's life with me.
- In her novel, Lapierre picks up on this and Richard Symonds's remark that Lanier was ‘inamorato di Artemisia Gentileschi,’ to construct a passionate affair between Lanier and Artemisia.
Origin
Late 16th century: Italian, literally 'enamoured', past participle of the verb inamorare (now innamorare), based on Latin amor 'love'.