amat-, amor-, am-

(Latin: love, loving; fondness for; such as a man for a woman and a woman for a man; an antonym of "hate")

Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle.
—Sam Levenson

amateur
amateurish
amateurishly
amateurishness
amative
amatively
amativeness
amatory
amor
Amore et tilmore.
Through love and fear.

Motto of German Emperor Joseph I (1705-1711).

amorous
amorously
amorousness
amor patriae
Love of fatherland.

Love for one's native country.

Amor vincit omnia.
Love conquers all.

Normally, the order in Latin is Omnia vincit amor.


This "love" unit is the main contributing source for the words in the ami- or "friend" unit.


Related "love, fondness" units: agape-; philo-; vener-; venus.


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