amatus

The term can be traced to the Latin "amatus" (to love) and French

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For generations of adults, the simple word-series "amo, amare, amavi, amatus" used to act as a kind of madeleine, calling to mind long classroom hours spent conjugating Latin verbs (including this one, meaning "love"), then exploring Gaul in its three parts and eventually trying to puzzle out the syntax of the rugged lines that followed "Arma virumque cano," the opening phrase of Virgil's "The Aeneid."

The Ne Plus Ultra of Languages Michael Poliakoff 2007

Under the red clay banks that rose above the sluggish stream, robbers 'caves, and treasure houses, and freebooters' dens, were filled with boys who, five days in the week and six hours a day, could "_amo amas amat, amamus amatus amant_" with the best of them.

In Our Town William Allen White 1906

And so he goes on: amatus will be treated before amor, imprudens before impudens, iusticia before iustus, polisintheton before polissenus -- the two last being from the Greek.

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

Latin language, as I am loved is expressed either by amor, or amatus sum.

Note XIV 1803

Latin language, as I am loved is expressed either by amor, or amatus sum.

The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766

Sed vero hare non est ilia, quae praesuppanicur, sed ad quam aspirat amor intendens maximam unionem, quam potest et motivum hujus in - tentionis non est conjunctio ipsa, sed amatus ipse propter se • Ipse est enim, qui movet ad appetitionem conjunctionis cum eodem • Qua de re fusius in capite tertio.

Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792

Tithonus, Laomedontis Reris Tro - iae filius, ob formatn amatus ak Aurora, & eius curru raptus in coelum 1» 28, g H, 16, 30.

Q. Horatii Flacci eclogae: cum scholiis veteribus Horace, William Baxter, Johann Matthias Gesner, Johann Carl Zeune 1788

The verb to be is also used irregularly to designate the parts of time and actual existence; and is then applied to either the active or passive participles of other verbs, and called an auxiliary verb; while the mode of existence, whether at rest, or in action, or being acted upon, is expressed by the participle, as "I am loving" is nearly the same as "I love," amo; and "I am loved," amatus sum, is nearly the same as amor.

Note XIV 1803

The verb _to be_ is also used irregularly to designate the parts of time and actual existence; and is then applied to either the active or passive participles of other verbs, and called an auxiliary verb; while the mode of existence, whether at rest, or in action, or being acted upon, is expressed by the participle, as "I am loving" is nearly the same as "I love," amo; and "I am loved," amatus sum, is nearly the same as amor.

The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766