adamo

See also: Adamo, adamó, and adāmo

Latin

Etymology

From ad- (“near, at; towards, to”) +‎ amō (“love”).

Pronunciation

Verb

adamō (present infinitive adamāre, perfect active adamāvī, supine adamātum); first conjugation

  1. (to love emphatically): to love ardently, deeply, earnestly, greatly or truly, to love with all one's heart; to be devoted, to be enamored, to be infatuated
    Synonyms: ārdeō, īnfatuor, ūrō
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.31:
      Horum primo circiter milia XV Rhenum transisse; postea quam agros et cultum et copias Gallorum homines feri ac barbari adamassent, traductos plures; nunc esse in Gallia ad C et XX milium numerum.
      That about 15,000 of them [i.e. of the Germans] had at first crossed the Rhine: but after that these wild and savage men had become enamored of the lands and the refinement and the abundance of the Gauls, more were brought over, that there were now as many as 120,000 of them in Gaul.
  2. (to desire emphatically): to covet, to crave, to desire, to long for, to want
    Synonyms: concupiō, cupiō
  3. (to conceive love or desire): to become enamored, to become captivated, to become devoted, to fall in love
    Synonyms: ārdēscō, exārdēscō

Conjugation

In Classical Latin, adamō was only used in the perfect and pluperfect tenses.

   Conjugation of adamō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present adamō adamās adamat adamāmus adamātis adamant
imperfect adamābam adamābās adamābat adamābāmus adamābātis adamābant
future adamābō adamābis adamābit adamābimus adamābitis adamābunt
perfect adamāvī adamāvistī,
adamāstī1		 adamāvit,
adamāt1		 adamāvimus,
adamāmus1		 adamāvistis,
adamāstis1		 adamāvērunt,
adamāvēre,
adamārunt1
pluperfect adamāveram,
adamāram1		 adamāverās,
adamārās1		 adamāverat,
adamārat1		 adamāverāmus,
adamārāmus1		 adamāverātis,
adamārātis1		 adamāverant,
adamārant1
future perfect adamāverō,
adamārō1		 adamāveris,
adamāris1		 adamāverit,
adamārit1		 adamāverimus,
adamārimus1		 adamāveritis,
adamāritis1		 adamāverint,
adamārint1
passive present adamor adamāris,
adamāre		 adamātur adamāmur adamāminī adamantur
imperfect adamābar adamābāris,
adamābāre		 adamābātur adamābāmur adamābāminī adamābantur
future adamābor adamāberis,
adamābere		 adamābitur adamābimur adamābiminī adamābuntur
perfect adamātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect adamātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect adamātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present adamem adamēs adamet adamēmus adamētis adament
imperfect adamārem adamārēs adamāret adamārēmus adamārētis adamārent
perfect adamāverim,
adamārim1		 adamāverīs,
adamārīs1		 adamāverit,
adamārit1		 adamāverīmus,
adamārīmus1		 adamāverītis,
adamārītis1		 adamāverint,
adamārint1
pluperfect adamāvissem,
adamāssem1		 adamāvissēs,
adamāssēs1		 adamāvisset,
adamāsset1		 adamāvissēmus,
adamāssēmus1		 adamāvissētis,
adamāssētis1		 adamāvissent,
adamāssent1
passive present adamer adamēris,
adamēre		 adamētur adamēmur adamēminī adamentur
imperfect adamārer adamārēris,
adamārēre		 adamārētur adamārēmur adamārēminī adamārentur
perfect adamātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect adamātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — adamā — — adamāte —
future — adamātō adamātō — adamātōte adamantō
passive present — adamāre — — adamāminī —
future — adamātor adamātor — — adamantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives adamāre adamāvisse,
adamāsse1		 adamātūrum esse adamārī adamātum esse adamātum īrī
participles adamāns — adamātūrus — adamātus adamandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
adamandī adamandō adamandum adamandō adamātum adamātū

1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Descendants
  • Spanish: adamar

References
  • “adamo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “adamo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • adamo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be an enthusiastic devotee of letters: litteras adamasse (only in perf. and plup.)
    • to become devoted to some one: adamasse aliquem (only in Perf. and Plup.) (Nep. Dion 2. 3)

Spanish

Verb

adamo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of adamar
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