The corpus record — Latin

adamo

adamo · v. a

to love truly

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Where it lives

Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăd-ămo — Lewis & Short

ăd-ămo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.ad, intens.,

I to love truly, earnestly, deeply (in the whole class. per. mostly—in Cic. always— used only in the perf. and pluperf.; first in Col. 10, 199, and Quint. 2, 5, 22, in the pres.): nihil erat cujusquam, quod quidem ille adamāsset, quod non hoc anno suum fore putaret, Cic. Mil. 32, 87; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 34; 2, 4, 45: sententiam, id. Ac. 2, 3, 9: Antisthenes patientiam et duritiam in Socratico sermone maxime adamārat, id. de Or. 3, 17, 62; cf. ib. 19, 71: laudum gloriam, id. Fam. 2, 4 fin.; cf. id. Flacc. 11: quem (Platonem) Dion admiratus est atque adamavit, Nep. Dion, 2, 3: agros et cultus et copias Gallorum, Caes. B. G. 1, 31: Achilleos equos, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 28: villas, Plin. Ep. 3, 7: si virtutem adamaveris, amare enim parum est (amare, as the merely instinctive love of goodness, in contrast with the acquired love of the philosophers, Doederl.), Sen. Ep. 71, 5.—

II Of unlawful love, Ov. A. A. 2, 109; Suet. Vesp. 22: Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 155; id. 36, 5, 4, § 23; Petr. S. 110 al.

In the wild

adamante Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.242
adamante Claudian, In Rufinum 1.1.119
adamavit Cicero, De Officiis 1.117.p1
adamante Statius, Silvae 1.2.69
adamavit Cornelius Nepos, Dion 2
adamas Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 2.444

6 of 75 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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