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Definition: Amor |
AmorNoun1. (Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Amor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Space | A class of Earth-crossing asteroid. (references) |
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Also a member of this group is the asteroid 433 Eros, which was the first asteroid to be orbited and then landed upon by a human probe (NEAR Shoemaker).
Amor ("love") was also an alternate name for Cupid, the Roman god of love. He was equivalent to Eros in Greek mythology, which see for more details.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amor."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AMOR | English | Applied Mathematics and Operational Research Group | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: AmorSynonym: Cupid (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Love | Phrase: amantes amentes; credula res amor est; militat omnis amasius; love conquers all, omnia vincit amor; si vis amari ama; " the sweetest joy, the wildest woe ". |
Philanthropy | Patriotism, civism, nationality, love of country, amor patriae, public spirit. |
Prodigality | Phrase: amor nummi; facile largiri de alieno; wie gewonnen so zerronnen; les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent; "spendthrift alike of money and of wit"; "squandering wealth was his peculiar art". |
Success | Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria; cede repugnanti cedendo victor abibis; chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune; dies faustus; l'art de vaincre est celui de mepriser la mort; omnia vincit amor; "peace hath her victories no less renowned than war"; "the race by vigor not by vaunts is won"; vincit qui patitur; vincit qui se vincit; "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Amor |
| Specialty definitions using "Amor": Serpentine Verses. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Amor": Amorous, Amour. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Amor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (Cupid), Catalan (affection, love), Czech (Cupid), Dutch (Cupid, Eros), German (cupid, love, sexual love), Indonesian (Goddess of love), Italian (sake), Latin (affection, be fond of, Cupid, fall in love with, have a tendency to, infatuation, like, love, passion), Lombard (affection, love), Papiamen (affection, love), Portuguese (abbreviates, affection, cherished, Cupid, darling, flame, heart, love, sweetheart, Sweeting, true love), Romanian (Cupid, love, love affair, love making), Spanish (affection, love, passion, Truelove). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Te quiero, mi amor (Bailamos; performing artist: ENRIQUE IGLESIAS) Dame tu amor, I'll never let it go (Stop; performing artist: Jon Secada) I wanna give you todo mi amor (Stop; performing artist: Jon Secada) Mi amor, como te extrano (Dreaming of You; performing artist: Selena) Me gustaria tenerte entre mis brazos amor (Spanish Guitar; performing artist: Toni Braxton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | O historia de amor que termina en boda Dos putas (1974) El Amor del capitán Brando (1974) Amor e Medo (1974) El Amor empieza a medianoche (1974) Con odio y con amor (1974) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | En este centímetro cúbico cabe todo su amor por los niños. : Vacunar a su hijo es obilgatorio. Por ley y por amor.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Vacunar a su hijo es obilgatorio. : Por ley y por amor.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Dar O Peito Criança é Dar-lhe Saúde e Amor.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | AIDS se enfrenta amor, a gente inventa foto Paulinho Munix.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | El amor de madre, no hay cosa como la madre en la vida transitoria; que la tierra le sea leve y dios la lleve a su gloria.Credit: Library of Congress. | | El amor de madre, no hay cosa como la madre en la vida transitoria; que la tierra le sea leve y dios la lleve a su gloria.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Una corrida de toros o el amor de Luisa.Credit: Library of Congress. | | Una corrida de toros o el amor de Luisa.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Amor cuando muere, canción moderna. Gaona se muere y no.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But though the golden age (before vain ambition, and amor sceleratus habendi, evil concupiscence, had corrupted men's minds into a mistake of true power and honour) had more virtue, and consequently better governors, as well as less vicious subjects, and there was then no stretching prerogative on the one side, to oppress the people; nor consequently on the other, any dispute about privilege, to lessen or restrain the power of the magistrate,* and so no contest betwixt rulers and people about governors or goveernment: yet, when ambition and luxury in future ages would retain and increase the power, without doing the business for which it was given; and aided by flattery, taught princes to have distinct and separate interests from their people, men found it necessary to examine more carefully the original and rights of government; and to find out ways to restrain the exorbitances, and prevent the abuses of that power, which they having intrusted in another's hands only for their own good, they found was made use of to hurt them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Amor me llama. |
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Economic History | Tunisia | Election results: President Zine El Abidine BEN ALI reelected for a third term; candidates from opposition: Mohamed Belhaj Amor (PUP) and Abderrahmene Tlili (UDU); percent of vote--Zine El Abidine BEN ALI 99.44% (officially). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Amor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.19% of the time. "Amor" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 76.19% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.81% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Amor" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Amor | Last name | 400 | 21,091 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Amor": amor nummi ♦ amor patriae. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Amor": amor-odium. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
poemas de amor | 3,867 | el amor | 120 |
amor | 2,433 | amor de test | 119 |
postales de amor | 1,054 | amor de poemas romanticos | 117 |
cartas de amor | 809 | amor de mensajes | 117 |
amor de frases | 794 | amor real | 112 |
tarjetas de amor | 700 | buscando amor | 109 |
carta de amor | 461 | tarjetas postales de amor | 104 |
amor el el entre odio y | 356 | amor de mensagem | 98 |
amor filial | 338 | amor de frases poemas | 95 |
amor de versos | 311 | amor con sexo | 95 |
poesias de amor | 309 | amor filial relatos | 91 |
amor de mensagens | 297 | amor de targetas virtuales | 90 |
amor de pensamientos | 274 | amor de en espanol poemas | 90 |
amor del las vias | 263 | historias de amor | 89 |
hechizos de amor | 173 | poesia de amor | 89 |
amor poemas | 148 | postales de amor gratis | 85 |
amor de piropos | 145 | amor cartas de poemas | 84 |
amor animadas gratuitas tarjetas | 134 | amor de postales virtuales | 79 |
hacer el amor | 130 | 93.1 amor | 79 |
amor el es que | 128 | amor como el es lo no pintan | 79 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Amor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 愛の神 (Eros, god of love, Venus). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あいのかみ (Eros, god of love, Venus). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | amoray amoraş (Cupid). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 5 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Melior est manifesta correptio quam amor absconditus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Betere is open amending, than hid looue. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Open rebuke is better than secret love. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Open rebuke is better than secret love. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Better is open protest than love kept secret. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Maayo pa ang pagbadlong sa dayag Kay sa gugma nga tinago. |
| Croatian | Bolji je javni ukor nego lažna ljubav. |
| Danish | Hellere åbenlys Revselse end Kærlighed, der skjules. |
| Dutch | Openbare bestraffing is beter dan verborgene liefde. |
| Finnish | Parempi julkinen nuhde kuin salattu rakkaus. |
| French | Mieux vaut une réprimande ouverte Qu`une amitié cachée. |
| German | Offene Strafe ist besser denn heimliche Liebe. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lebih baik teguran yang terang-terangan daripada kasih yang tidak diungkapkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Peneguran yang nyata itu terlebih baik dari pada pengasihan yang tersembuni. |
| Italian | Meglio un rimprovero aperto che un amore celato. |
| Maori | ¶ He pai ke te riri matanui i te aroha huna. |
| Norwegian | Åpenlys irettesettelse er bedre enn kjærlighet som skjules. |
| Portuguese | Melhor é a repreensão aberta do que o amor encoberto. |
| Rumanian | Mai bine o mustrare pe fayq de ckt o prietenie ascunsq. - |
| Russian | мХЮЫЕ ПФЛТЩФПЕ П'МЙЮЕОЙЕ, ОЕЦЕМЙ УЛТЩФБС МА'ПЧШ. |
| Swedish | Bättre är öppen tillrättavisning än kärlek som hålles fördold. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Amor": amoral, amoralism, amoralisms, amoralities, amorality, amorally, amoretti, amoretto, amorettos, amorini, amorino, amorist, amoristic, amorists, amoroso, amorous, amorously, amorousness, amorousnesses, amorphous, amorphously, amorphousness, amorphousnesses, amort, amortise, amortised, amortises, amortising, amortizable, amortization, amortizations, amortize, amortized, amortizes, amortizing. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Amor": beclamor, beglamor, clamor, coenamor, enamor, glamor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Amor": anamorphic, beclamored, beclamoring, beclamors, beglamored, beglamoring, beglamors, camorra, camorras, camorrista, camorristi, clamored, clamorer, clamorers, clamoring, clamorous, clamorously, clamorousness, clamorousnesses, clamors, coenamored, coenamoring, coenamors, deglamorization, deglamorizations, deglamorize, deglamorized, deglamorizes, deglamorizing, enamoration, enamorations, enamored, enamoring, enamors, glamorise, glamorised, glamorises, glamorising, glamorization, glamorizations, glamorize, glamorized, glamorizer, glamorizers, glamorizes, glamorizing, glamorous, glamorously, glamorousness, glamorousnesses, glamors. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mora, roam. | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-o-r" | |
-1 letter: arm, mar, moa, mor, oar, ora, ram, rom. | |
-2 letters: am, ar, ma, mo, om, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-o-r" | |
+1 letter: amort, amour, armor, aroma, carom, foram, joram, macro, major, manor, mayor, moira, molar, morae, moral, moras, moray, roams, roman. | |
+2 letters: amoral, amours, armors, armory, armour, aromas, bromal, caroms, carrom, chroma, clamor, crambo, enamor, femora, foamer, forams, formal, format, glamor, jorams, macron, macros, maduro, mahzor, majors, manors, marmot, maroon, marron, marrow, matron, mayors, moaner, mohair, moirai, molars, morale, morals, morass, morays, morgan, mortal, mortar, morula, normal, orgasm, paramo, radome, ramose, ramous, ramrod, ramson, random, ransom, remora, roamed, roamer, rodman, romano, romans, stroma, vagrom, varoom, womera. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 6F 72 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- --- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 006F 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35798184 |
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