Noun: amador
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | amador |
| Singular f | amadora |
| Plural m | amadores |
| Plural f | amadoras |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like amador
senhor,
emulador,
activador,
agravador,
bebedor,
conspirador,
amansador,
alterador,
chamador,
violador,
furador,
enganador,
apelador,
conjurador,
difamador,
fumador,
albergador,
viajador,
apreensor,
lenhador, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der.
3. Proto-Italic *amāō
4. Latin amō
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
6. Proto-Italic *-tōr
7. Latin -tor
8. Latin amātōrem
9. Old Galician-Portuguese amador
10. Portuguese amador
11. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese amador, from Latin amātōrem. By surface analysis, amar + -dor.
12. Noun sense 1 is a semantic loan from French amateur. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
amador', Old Portuguese Nouns '
amador', Latin Nouns '
amātor'.
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