amasius

English

Etymology

From the Latin amāsius (“a lover”).

Noun

amasius (plural amasii)

1. (rare, literary) One’s beloved; a lover.
   • 1607?, Edward Topsell, The Hiſtory of Four-footed Beaſts and Serpents (1658), “Of the Lion”, page 369:

     Ovid hath a witty fiction of one Phyllius, who fell ſo deeply in love with a little boy, that at his pleaſure he took many wilde Beaſts, Birds, and Lions, and tamed them to the delight of his Amaſius: at length the inſatiable Boy required him to do the like by a Bull, which he had overcome, but Phyllius denying that requeſt, the Boy preſently caſt himſelf down from a Rock, and was afterward turned into a Swan.

Anagrams

• amusias

Latin

Etymology

From amō (“I love”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈmaː.si.us/, [äˈmäːs̠iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈma.si.us/, [äˈmäːs̬ius]

Noun

amāsius m (genitive amāsiī or amāsī); second declension

1. a lover
   • c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 3.1.14–15:

     nunc ego istos mundulos urbanos amasios
     hoc ictu exponam atque omnis eiciam foras

     Now those finicky town bed-hoppers
     with this one stroke shall I send adrift and toss them all outside

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Quintilian to this entry?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Aulus Gellius to this entry?)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	amāsius	amāsiī
genitive	amāsiī amāsī1	amāsiōrum
dative	amāsiō	amāsiīs
accusative	amāsium	amāsiōs
ablative	amāsiō	amāsiīs
vocative	amāsie	amāsiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (a lover): amāsiō, amātor

Derived terms

• amāsia (Mediaeval)
• amāsiuncula
• amāsiunculus

Descendants

• Italian: amasio
• → English: amasius

References

• “ămāsĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ămāsĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 109/2.
• “amāsius” on page 113/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)