Noun: amador
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | amador |
| Singular f | amadora |
| Plural m | amadores |
| Plural f | amadoras |
Sample Sentences
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Et ja por eſta maneỹra moỹtas donas ⁊ donselas rreçeben grã dãno poꝛ en gano dos falſſos amador̃s ⁊ graue couſa he de cõnoſçer o leal amadoꝛ. (And, this way, many ladies and damsels have been greatly damaged by deceit of false lovers, and a tough thing it is to meet the loyal lover.) [1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Cõmo breçayda rreſpondeu a Diomedes [How Briseis answered Diomedes]” (chapter 201), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 83v:]
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der.
3. Proto-Italic *amāō
4. Latin amō
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
6. Proto-Italic *-tōr
7. Latin -tor
8. Latin amātōrem
9. Old Galician-Portuguese amador
10. Inherited from Latin amātōrem. By surface analysis, amar + -dor.
Verbs referencing "amador"
Portuguese Nouns
amador.
Translations