amabilis
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From amāre and amārī (“to love” and “to be loved”) + -bilis (“-able: able or worthy to be”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) 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.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | 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.