amatory 情愛的、戀愛的（書面、文學用語）｜字脈

1情愛的、戀愛的（書面、文學用語）
Amatory means expressing sexual or romantic love. It is a , rather old-fashioned adjective. You find it in talk about poems, letters, and art: amatory verse, an amatory glance in a painting. It is not the everyday word for a crush, and it is not as blunt as sexual; it sits in the literary lane, where love and desire are being shown on the page. People almost never say it in the street. If a student wants to talk about a love story in class, romantic or love is the natural choice; amatory is for when you are naming that old literary flavour on purpose. It has nothing to do with being an amateur.

組成From Latin amātōrius (“to do with love or a lover”), from amātor (“a lover”), from amō (“to love”).

amateurfrom the same Latin amātor, “lover” — though amateur later came to mean “doing it for love, not money”
amorousfrom the same Latin love-root; more common than amatory, still a little literary

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

amatoryadj/ˈɑ.mə.tə.ɹi/

1
Of or relating to love, especially sexual love.
- Eggs, oysters, too, are amatory food; / But who is their purveyor from above / Heaven knows […]
- In the desperate search for amatory satisfactions, the most monstrous ingredients have throughout the ages, been sought and compounded into electuaries and pastilles, philtres and ointments.

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