adamares
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. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...multa in muliebrem levitatem coepit iactare: quam facile adamarent, quam cito etiam filiorum obliviscerentur, nullamque esse feminam..." - M
Liber Primus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...equos, si ludicra exercendi aut venandi consuetudine adamare solemus, quanto id in hominum consuetudine facilius fieri poterit..."