🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

amado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ah-mah-doo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Loved/lʌvd/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ela é uma pessoa muito amada."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Regarded with deep affection, cherished, or highly valued by someone.

    "She felt deeply loved and supported by her family during difficult times."
As verb
  1. 1

    Past tense and past participle of love; to have felt a deep romantic or passionate attachment to someone.

    "He loved his childhood home and visited it whenever he could."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English verb 'liefan' and 'lufian', meaning to hold dear or cherish, stemming from the Proto-Germanic '*lubōną'. Over centuries, the participle evolved to describe someone or something deeply cherished, cherished affectionately, or regarded with profound warmth and devotion.

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