amasius

From the Latin amāsius (“a lover”).

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.

• amusias

From amō (“I love”).

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

amāsius m (genitive amāsiī or amāsī); second declension

1. a lover

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Second-declension noun.

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

• (a lover): amāsiō, amātor

• amāsia (Mediaeval)
• amāsiuncula
• amāsiunculus

• Italian: amasio
• → English: amasius

• “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)