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
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...multa in muliebrem levitatem coepit iactare: quam facile adamarent, quam cito etiam filiorum obliviscerentur, nullamque esse feminam..."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..."