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amasii

amasii is the plural of amasius.

Meaning of amasius

Noun

amasius (plural amasii)

  1. (literary) A male paramour, typically in extramarital or illicit contexts
    • Ovid hath a witty fiction of one Phyllius, who fell ſo deeply in love with a little boy, that at his pleaſure he took many wilde Beaſts, Birds, and Lions, and tamed them to the delight of his Amaſius: at length the inſatiable Boy required him to do the like by a Bull, which he had overcome, but...1607?, Edward Topsell, The Hiſtory of Four-footed Beaſts and Serpents (1658), “Of the Lion”, page 369
  2. (Ancient-Rome) a male prostitute.

Questions about amasii

What is amasii the plural of?
Amasii is the plural of amasius.

Words near amasii in the dictionary

  1. Amash
  2. Amashes
  3. amasi
  4. Amasia
  5. Amasiah
  6. amasii
  7. amasius
  8. Amason
  9. Amasons
  10. amass
  11. amassable

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