amor

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Tutt 'intorno canta amor, amor, amor!

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  1. Love; affection; friendship; especially, love toward one of the opposite sex: now only in the form amour (which see).
  2. [capitalized] [L.] In Roman mythology, the god of love; Cupid.

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  • There's more to this disc than just amor, and "Category 5" is one of the bluesiest hurricane odes you'll ever hear. —  Miami New Times | Complete Issue
  • You'll have to start off with a limpia para el amor, a sangria punch, poetry for inspiration, some love-sexy music with DJ Toks and love advice from the love crafters [...] —  LA Brain Terrain
  • Todas as ruas do amor is a mid-tempo ballad that mixes pop music with folk elements. —  esctoday.com | news
  • Tutt 'intorno canta amor, amor, amor! —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
  • I felt glad for Father Domenico; his battle was over Take this to Father Domenico from me," said Dionea, breaking off a twig of myrtle starred over with white blossom; and raising her head with that smile like the twist of a young snake, she sang out in a high guttural voice a strange chant, consisting of the word Amor--amor--amor_. —  Hauntings
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  1. Early modern English amor (with accent on first syllable, later accented and pron. as F. amour: see amour), from Middle English amour, amur (accented on first syllable, earlier on the second), from Old French amor, amur, amour, modern F. amour = Spanish Portuguese amor = Italian amore, from Latin amor, accusative amorem, love; personified, Love, Cupid, Eros; from amare, love, perhaps orig. *camare (cf. cārus, orig. *camrus, loving, loved, dear) = Sanskrit √kam, love (cf. kāma, n., love). Cf. amiable, amity, amour, etc.
 

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