amo

1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forAmo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Amo terms

Cognate withSahoamo.

• IPA^(key):/aˈmo/ [ʔʌˈmɔ]
• Hyphenation:a‧mo

amó f (plural amoomá f)

1. head
2. intelligence
3. summit,top
4. (collective)hair

• (hair):xágor

• (diminutive)amóyta,amoytá

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “amo”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London,→ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015)L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

amo

1. monkey

• among

Borrowed fromSpanishamo(“master of the house”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈʔamo/ [ˈʔa.mo]
• Hyphenation:a‧mo

amo (Basahan spellingᜀᜋᜓ)

1. master;boss
2. petowner;caretaker(of an animal)

   Synonym:kag-ataman

From Greater CentralProto-Philippine*amúʔ. CompareCebuanoamo(“monkey”),Cuyunonamoy(“small monkey”),Hiligaynonamo(“monkey”),Tagalogamo(“small monkey”) andTausugamu'.

• IPA^(key):/ʔaˈmoʔ/ [ʔaˈmoʔ]
• Hyphenation:a‧mo

amô (Basahan spellingᜀᜋᜓ)

1. (Naga)monkey

   Synonyms:kabalang,ukay

• IPA^(key):(Central)[ˈa.mu]
• IPA^(key):(Balearic,Valencia)[ˈa.mo]

Back-formation fromama(“mistress”).

amo m (pluralamos,feminineama)

1. owner(of a piece of land or real estate, a business, a dog, etc.)
2. master

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

amo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofamar

• “amo” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

amo

1. tomow

amo

1. may
2. tolet
   • 2010,Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies,→ISBN, Könupin 58:7-8, page775:

     Amo repwe mȯronȯ ussun chok konik mi chok nichino.Amo repwe pachchacheno ussun chok ekkewe fetin won aan.Amo repwe ussun chok ekkewe pwechar sia puriretiw.Amo repwe ussun chok emon mönukon mi mȧ nupwen a uputiw.

     Let them disappear like water leaking. Let them stick like the grass on the ground. Let them be like the snail we step on. Let them be like a newborn who is dead when he is born.

amo

1. Alternative spelling ofahmo

amo

1. father

Fromami +‎-o.

• IPA^(key):/ˈamo/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes:-amo
• Hyphenation: a‧mo

amo (accusative singularamon,pluralamoj,accusative pluralamojn)

1. love

   Kiu dissemasamon, tiu rikoltos la samon.

   Whoever sowslove will harvest the same.

   —Proverb by Morteza Mirbaghian

   • Edmond Privat,Vivo de Zamenhof, Ĉapitro 2,

     Similajamoj inter filo kaj patrino ĉe multaj geniuloj estas ofte rimarkeblaj. Pope, Musset, Lamartine adoris la patrinon sian, kaj al ŝi tre multon ŝuldis. Same Zamenhof.

     Similar close relationships (lit.loves) between sons and mothers can often been seen in geniuses. Pope, Musset and Lamartine all adored their mothers and owed much to them. The same was true of Zamenhof.

amo(Forézien,Savoyard)

1. Alternative form ofamar(“tolove”)

• amo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu

amongo (pluralamóóji)

1. (Pulaar)flood

• D. Osborn, D. Dwyer, et J. Donohoe, Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français: Une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes, suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993.

Fromama(“mistress”), from HispanicLate Latinamma, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*amma-(“mother”).^[1]

• IPA^(key):/ˈamo̝/

amo m (pluralamos,feminineama,feminine pluralamas)

1. (archaic)tutor

   Synonym:titor

2. (archaic)steward

   Synonym:mordomo

3. (archaic)landlord
   • 1814, Manuel Pardo de Andrade,Aos coruñeses:

     En certa aldea traballou o ano pasado certo labrador certa porcion de terra: chegada a recolleita foi a segar, e colleu vinte pares de monllos, deles pagou o señor cura duos pares do desmo, pagou nove o señoramo; logo veu o señor cura, e rapoulle cinco polas toucas, quedaronlle catro, mallounos, e non lle deron un ferrado

     in certain village last year certain farmer farmed certain apportion of land: as the harvest came he went to reap; he collected twenty pairs of sheaves; of them he paid two pairs to the priest for the tithe, nine he paid to thelandlord; then the priest came again and snatched five for the ecclesiastical services; he was left with four; he threshed them and obtained less than half a bushel

4. master

   Synonyms:dono,patrón,propietario

• amádego

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

amo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofamar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “amo”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “amo”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “amo”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “amo”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “amo”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

• amo'

Borrowed fromSpanishamo.

• IPA^(key):/ˈʔamuʔ/[ˈʔɐ.moʔ]
• Rhymes:-amuʔ
• Syllabification:a‧mo

amò (Hanunoo spellingᜠᜫᜳ)

1. master;boss, especially aChristian who hires aHanunoolaborer

CompareTagalogamo andCebuanoamo.

• IPA^(key):/ˈʔamuʔ/[ˈʔɐ.moʔ]
• Rhymes:-amuʔ
• Syllabification:a‧mo

amò (Hanunoo spellingᜠᜫᜳ)

1. crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953)Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press,→OCLC,page28

• IPA^(key):/ʔá.móː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa)IPA^(key):[ʔá.móː]

amō m (possessed formamon)

1. sound;noise

FromProto-Polynesian*qamo (compare withMaoriamo “stretcher, litter”,Tahitianamo,Samoanamo “yoke of a litter”)^[1][2]

• IPA^(key):/ˈa.mo/,[ˈɐ.mo]

amo

1. burden

amo

1. (transitive) tocarry (on the shoulders)

From Greater CentralProto-Philippine*amúʔ. CompareCebuanoamo(“monkey”),Cuyunonamoy(“small monkey”),Tagalogamo(“small monkey”) andTausugamu'.

amo

1. monkey

Borrowed fromEsperantoamo.

• IPA^(key):/ˈa.mo/

amo (pluralami)

1. love

• suamo

From RiauMalay[Term?].

• IPA^(key):/ˈamo/
• Hyphenation:amo

amo

1. white mite in rice husks

• “amo” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Inherited fromLatinhāmus. CompareSpanishhamo,Frenchhameçon.

• IPA^(key):/ˈa.mo/
• Rhymes:-amo
• Hyphenation:à‧mo

amo m (pluralami)

1. hook
2. (figurative)bait

• abboccare all'amo

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

amo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofamare

• amo in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• -oma,moa

• amu(Eastern Kata-vari, Western Kata-vari)

FromProto-Nuristani*amākā, probably fromProto-Indo-Iranian*dmáH(“at home”), fromProto-Indo-European*démh₁, locative singular of*dṓm.

• IPA^(key):/aˈmo/

amo f(Kamviri)[1]

1. house
2. room

amo

1. master

Inherited fromProto-Cariban*amo; compareTrióamo,Wayanaamo,Ye'kwanaaamo,Yao (South America)ouamonu.

• IPA^(key):[aːmo]

amo

1. (transitive) toweep for, tocry for, tomourn(someone)
2. (transitive) tocryvengeance on

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008)A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books,→ISBN, page223
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “amo”, inEncyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page81; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl.,L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[4], Paris,1956, page83

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

amo m

1. boss,owner

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈa.moː/,[ˈämoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈa.mo/,[ˈäːmo]

Inherited fromProto-Italic*amō, see the Proto-Italic entry for more information.

amō (present infinitiveamāre,perfect activeamāvī,supineamātum);first conjugation

1. tolove

   Synonym:dīligō

   Antonyms:exsecror,abhorreō,abōminor,dēspuō,odiō

   • c. 200BCE,Plautus,MostellariaI.iii:

     Tū mēamās, egō tēamō; meritō id fierī uterque exīstumat.

     Youlove me, Ilove you; and each of us believes it to be well-deserved.

   • c. 4BCE – 65CE,Seneca the Younger,Letters to Lucilius IX.6:

     Sī vīsamārī,amā.

     Love if you wishto be loved.

2. to befond of,like,admire

   Synonyms:dīligō,probō,approbō,comprobō

   Antonyms:improbō,reprobō

3. to bepleased by or with (someone or something) for (a particular reason); toderivepleasure from...(for...),delight in...(for...)

   Synonym:dēlector

   • 17BCE,Horace,Carmen Saeculare :

     ...hīc magnōs potius triumphōs, hīcamēs dīcī pater atque prī̆nceps, neu sinās Mēdōs equitāre inultōs // tē duce, Caesar.

     ...rather,may you delight in these great triumphs, to be called father and the first man (of state), and may you not allow the Medes to ride unpunished while you lead, Caesar.

4. (withsē) to be pleased (with oneself), to becontent
5. (with infinitive) to beaccustomed (to),enjoy anactivity

   Synonyms:assuefio,fruor

6. to bethankful,grateful to, feelobliged for aservice
   • c. 185BCE – 159BCE,Publius Terentius Afer,The Eunuch :

     Ō Thāis mea, meum sāvium, quid agitur? Ecquid nōsamās dē fīdīcinā istāc?

     O Thais, my sweetie, what's happening? Are yougrateful to us for that harpist?

   • ~160 BCE,Publius Terentius Afer,The Brothers :

     Bene facis, meritō tē amō.

     You're very kind,I'm rightlyobliged to you.

   • 68BCE – 44BCE,Cicero,Epistulae ad Atticum CXXIII, (The phraseraudusculo Numeriano, "Numerius' bit of coin", here refers to a small monetary debt assumedly having been owed by Cicero to Numerius, and paid for Cicero by Atticus):

     Dē raudusculō Numeriānō multum tēamō.

     Regarding Numerius' bit of coinI am very muchobliged to you.

The ancient Romans were accustomed to saying "I shall / will love you!" ("tēamābō" / "amābō tē") in supplication, and "I love you!" ("tē amō") when they were expressing gratitude. Latin "amāre" has a broader semantic range than English "to love", and so can be a semantically "weaker" or, perhaps, less intense verb.Amāre was therefore appropriate for speech etiquette in situations of supplication or the expression of gratitude. Because of the semantic differences between the Latin and English verbs, and especially of the narrower semantic range of English "to love", a literal translation into English will in such cases (involving supplication or gratitude) inevitably appear strange. Accordingly, translators have ever resorted to expressions like "appreciate", "be thankful" and "be obliged" as a workaround, but in such cases the Romans actually meant "love" as they construed that emotion.

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used byOld Latin writers; most notablyPlautus andTerence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
²At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• amoenus

• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[5], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • to love some one very dearly, with all one's heart:aliquem toto pectore,ut dicitur, amare (Leg. 18. 49)
    
  • to love deeply:aliquem ex animo orex animi sententia amare (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 5)
    

Seehama.

amō f (genitiveamōnis);third declension

1. medieval spelling ofhama

Third-declension noun.

• “amo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "amo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• amo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[6], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • to love some one very dearly, with all one's heart:aliquem toto pectore,ut dicitur, amare (Leg. 18. 49)
    
  • to love deeply:aliquem ex animo orex animi sententia amare (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 5)
    
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “amo”, inMediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus,Leiden,Boston:E. J. Brill, page41/2

amo

1. monkey

FromJavaneseamuk.

amo (passiveamohia)

1. tocharge, toattack

FromProto-Polynesian*qamo.^[1]

amo (passiveamongiaoramohia)

1. tocarry something on the shoulder (on a litter, etc)

   Synonym:kauhoa

2. topresent (of an offering)

amo

1. litter,bier,stretcher
2. front support of amarae'sbargeboard (hihi,mahihi ormaihi)

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “amo”, inA Dictionary of the Maori Language, page10
• “amo” in John C. Moorfield,Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN.

amo (transitive animate,3s-3' independent formodamwaan,changed conjunct formemwaad,2s-3 imperative formamooramwi,reduplicated formayamo)

1. eat

   Ingii-amwaa wiishkobi-bakwezhigan gii-tibishkaayaan.

   I ate cake when I had my birthday.

• miijin
• wiisini

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionaryhttps://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/amo-vta

• Rhymes:(Portugal)-ɐmu,(Brazil)-ɐ̃mu
• Hyphenation:a‧mo

FromOld Galician-Portugueseamo, fromama.

amo m (pluralamos,feminineama,feminine pluralamas)

1. master

   Synonym:mestre

2. boss

   Synonyms:chefe,patrão

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

amo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofamar

Cognate withAfaramó.

• IPA^(key):/ˈamo/
• Hyphenation:a‧mo

amo m (pluralamom m)

1. head
2. chief
3. top,summit

• Moreno Vergari, Roberta Vergari (2007) “amo”, inA basic Saho-English-Italian Dictionary (revised version)

• IPA^(key):/âːmo/
• Hyphenation:a‧mo

ȃmo (Cyrillic spellingа̑мо)

1. hither,here
2. this way

• ȃmoder,òvāmo,sȉm,sȉmo

amo

1. (intransitive) tocome

• IPA^(key):/ˈamo/[ˈa.mo]

• Audio(Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-amo
• Syllabification:a‧mo

Back-formation fromama.

amo m (pluralamos,feminineama,feminine pluralamas)

1. master(man who owns a slave)
2. owner, master,keeper(man who owns an animal)

• → Bikol Central:amo
• → Hanunoo:amo
• → Tagalog:amo

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

amo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofamar

• “amo”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed fromSpanishamo(“master of the house”).

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈʔamo/[ˈʔaː.mo]
• Rhymes:-amo
• Syllabification:a‧mo

amo (Baybayin spellingᜀᜋᜓ)

1. master;employer;boss

   Synonyms:hepe,panginoon

2. petowner;caretaker(of an animal)

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈʔamoʔ/[ˈʔaː.moʔ]
• Rhymes:-amoʔ
• Syllabification:a‧mo

amò (Baybayin spellingᜀᜋᜓ)

1. gentleness;docility
2. tameness(of animals)
3. supplication;coaxing

From Greater CentralProto-Philippine*amúʔ. CompareHanunooamo(“monkey”),Bikol Centralamo(“monkey”),Cuyunonamoy(“small monkey”),Hiligaynonamo(“monkey”) andTausugamu'.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ʔaˈmoʔ/[ʔɐˈmoʔ]
• Rhymes:-oʔ
• Syllabification:a‧mo

amô (Baybayin spellingᜀᜋᜓ)

1. atype ofsmallmonkey
2. (Marinduque, in general)monkey

   Synonyms:unggoy,tsonggo,matsing

• alupag-amo

• IPA^(key):/ˈa.mo/

amo

1. thebreadfruittree (Artocarpus altilis)

• → Gorontalo:amo

• IPA^(key):/ˈʔa.mo/

amo

1. (stative) to bethick,viscous (of liquids)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

amo

1. Not, negation.

• Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962)Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos, segunda impresión edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, published1971

Inherited fromProto-Austronesian*ama-h.

IPA^(key):/amo/

amo

1. father

• IPA^(key):/ˈa.mo/

amo

1. reason

   isapama amo... ―why is it that... (literally, “why is the reason...”)

amo

1. (subordinating)because,since (literally, "the reason is")

   Synonyms:karena,sebap,serta

amo

1. theliver

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982)The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[7], Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key):[amo]

amo (possessedamodü)

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect)Alternative form ofamö(“hand”)