Amorousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈæ.mɹəs/, /ˈæ.mə.ɹəs/
• 韻: -æməɹəs

形容詞

amorous (comparative more amorous, superlative most amorous)

1. Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.

   Synonyms: loving, fond, affectionate

   an amorous disposition

   We were both feeling amorous so the inevitable happened.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:

     Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. Indicating love or sexual desire.

   She kept making these amorous suggestions.

   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:

     UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms
     UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew.
     And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe,
     Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: […]

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 572:

     Long were to tell the amorous aſſayes,
     And gentle pangues, with which he maked meeke
     The mightie Mars, to learne his wanton playes:

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 218:

     There was no tune to it, only amorous gruntings like those of some old satyr who had furnished music for Circe's revels.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 139:

     When held in the hand, the lizard produces an amorous stimulus.

3. Of or relating to, or produced by, love.

   She read me an amorous poem.

4. (dated) Affected with love; in love; enamored.

   He had been amorous of her since schooldays.

同意語

• concupiscent
• lustful

派生語

関連する語

• amour

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “amorous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “amorous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源

Borrowed from Old French amoros, from Vulgar Latin *amōrōsus; equivalent to amour +‎ -ous.

発音

• IPA: /ˌamuˈruːs/, /ˈamurus/, /ˌaməˈruːs/, /ˈamərus/

形容詞

amorous

1. Amorous, loving (inclined to love or sex)
2. Amorous, loving (indicating or related to love or lust)
3. Amorous, enamoured; in love or lovestruck.
   • 1471 September 28 [1464], Raoul le ffeure, translated by Willyam Caxton, [T]he recuyell of the hiſtoryes of Troye, [London], translation of Le recueil de histoires de Troye (in Middle French), published c. 1474; republished by H. Oskar Sommer, editor‎volume II, London: David Nutt, 1894, →OCLC, leaf 176:

     By the dayly ſight of her / hercules becam amerous of her And requyred her to be his wyf

     By seeing her daily, Hercules became enamoured with her and asked her to become his wife.

4. (rare, by extension) Passionate, caring, kind.

派生語

• amorously

派生した語

• English: amorous
• Scots: amorous

参照

• “amorǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.