English

Noun

amasius

1. (rare) 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.

Latin

Etymology

From amō ‎(“I love”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈmaː.si.us/, [aˈmaː.si.ʊs]

Noun

amāsius m ‎(genitive amāsiī or amāsī); second declension

1. a lover
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Declension

Second declension.

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

Synonyms

• (a lover): amāsiō, amātor

Derived terms

• amāsia (Mediaeval)
• amāsiuncula
• amāsiunculus

Descendants

• English: amasius
• ?Italian: amasio

References

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