adama
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adamo, adamare, adamavi, adamatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fall in love/lust with; love passionately/adulterously; admire greatly; covet;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...nautis, grandia tolluntur crystallina, maxima rursus murrina, deinde adamas notissimus et Beronices in digito factus pretiosior. hunc dedit..."de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quorundam lapidum inexpugnabilis ferro duritia est nec secari adamas aut caedi uel deteri potest sed incurrentia ultro retundit..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...modo vir, modo femina Sithon. te quoque, nunc adamas, quondam fidissime parvo, Celmi, Iovi largoque satos Curetas..."