adamo
κατὰ τὸν δεύτερον, φασί, πλοῦν τὰ ἐλάχιστα ληπτέον τῶν κακῶν → we must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils
Latin > English
adamo adamare, adamavi, adamatus V TRANS :: fall in love/lust with; love passionately/adulterously; admire greatly; covet
Latin > English (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. id. 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.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
ădămō,¹² āvī, ātum, āre, tr., se mettre à aimer, s’éprendre de : Cic. Amer. 121 ; Mil. 87 ; de Or. 3, 71 ; Tusc. 2, 26 ; Cæs. G. 1, 31, 5 ; Nep. Dion 2, 3 || [avec acc. attribut] Sen. Ep. 94, 8 || rare aimer passionnément : si virtutem adamaveris, amare enim parum est Sen. Ep. 71, 5, si tu as pour la vertu un amour passionné, car un simple amour serait insuffisant.
employé surtout aux formes du pf. ; formes du présent très rares : Cic. Fin. 1, 69 ; Col. Rust. 10, 199 ; Petr. 110, 7 ; Plin. 10, 119 ; Quint. 2, 5, 22.
Latin > German (Georges)
ad-amo, āvī, ātum, āre, lieb gewinnen, I) = einer Pers. od. Sache seine Zuneigung (Liebe) schenken, zu jmd. od. etw. Neigung bekommen, an etw. Freude bekommen, alqm, Nep.: equos, Cic.: gloriam, Cic. – si virtutem adamaveris; amare enim parum est, wenn du innige, begeisterte Liebe zur T. gewonnen hast; denn bloße instinktmäßige Liebe wäre zu wenig, Sen. ep. 71, 5. – m. dopp. Acc. (etw. als), virtutem unicum bonum hominis, Sen. ep. 94, 8. – II) = sinnliche Liebe fassen zu jmd., alqm, Ov., Liv. epit., Plin. u.a.: mulier adamata, Ps. Quint. decl. – / Die Behauptung, bei Cicero u. seinen Zeitgenossen kämen nur die Persektformen vor, wird widerlegt durch Cic. de fin. 1, 69: etenim si loca, si fana... adamare solemus.
