英:['æmətɪvlɪ]
美:['æmətɪvlɪ]
英:['æmətɪvlɪ]
美:['æmətɪvlɪ]
adjective
strongly moved by love and especially sexual love : amorous sense 1
A man of convivial and amorous habits, he was so amative that his temper was known to everyone in every village around. A greatest philanderer, to put it mildly, although aging.—Lara Biyuts
relating to or indicative of love : amorous sense 3
Most spectacularly, she claimed to have been tutored in the amative arts by an angel named Soph, the spirit of a deceased suitor she had once spurned.—Mathew N. Schmalz
borrowed from Medieval Latin amātīvus, from Latin amāt-, stem in nominal derivation of amāre "to have affection for, love" + -īvus -ive — more at amateur
The first known use of amative was in 1633