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Dictionary · noun

ameto

ameto/aˈme.to/

ameto is an Esperanto noun meaning “fondness, liking, care”.

Meaning

  1. fondness, liking, care (for someone)
  2. brief affair, fling

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Related meanings: puppy love

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Pronunciation

IPA
/aˈme.to/
Syllables
a·ME·to

Word structure

  1. amrootamo
  2. etsuffixsmall, weak
  3. oendingnoun

Forms

singularplural
subjectametoametoj
object (-n)ametonametojn

Example sentences

  • E. W. Amos, La Tempo-Maŝino (The Time Machine) by H. G. Wells, Chapter 5,For, by merely seeming fond of me, and showing in her weak, futile way that she cared for me (lit. a liking for me), the little doll of a creature presently gave my return to the neighbourhood of the White Sphinx almost the feeling of coming homeameto: fondness, liking, care
  • Daniel Luez (translator), “La Mastrino” (“La Patronne” / “The Landlady”) by Guy de Maupassant, in La Ondo de Esperanto, 1999, No. 1,You know what these Paris affairs are like. One day on the way to college, you meet a bare-headed girl, walking arm-in-arm with her girlfriend before going back to work. You exchange looks, and get that little shudder that comes when some women look at you. (Helen Constantine translation, in Paris Metro Tales, Oxford, 2011)

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