amabilis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From amāre and amārī (“to love” and “to be loved”) + -bilis (“-able: able or worthy to be”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈmaː.bi.lis/, [äˈmäːbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈma.bi.lis/, [äˈmäːbilis]
Adjective
[edit]amābilis (neuter amābile, comparative amābilior, adverb amābiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | amābilis | amābile | amābilēs | amābilia | |
| genitive | amābilis | amābilium | |||
| dative | amābilī | amābilibus | |||
| accusative | amābilem | amābile | amābilēs amābilīs |
amābilia | |
| ablative | amābilī | amābilibus | |||
| vocative | amābilis | amābile | amābilēs | amābilia | |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: amable
- Galician: amable
- Italian: amabile
- Old French: amable
- Portuguese: amável
- Romanian: amabil
- Spanish: amable
- → English: Amabel
References
[edit]- “amabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “amabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- amabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.