From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology 1
[en]. [en]. [en].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. [en] Having affection or warm regard ; loving ; fond .
2. [en] Characterised by or proceeding from affection; indicating love ; tender .
3. * [I]
4. [en] [eager] ; passionate ; strongly inclined toward something.
***** Synonyms
- [en] ; lovesome ; attached ; loving ; devoted ; warm ; fond ; earnest ; ardent .
- See also Thesaurus:affectionate
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[loving]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
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[indicating love]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
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- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
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*** Etymology 2
Either from the above [adjective] by [metanalysis] or from [en] (modelled on
[frm] ([fr])).
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To show affection to; to have affection for.
2. [en] To emotionally attach (oneself) to.
3. * [RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes] , Folio Society, 2006, p.21:
4. *: _Plutarch_ saith fitly of those who AFFECTIONATE themselves to Monkies and little Dogges, that [nb...] .
5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1721 | author=John Rushworth | title=Historical Collections Of Private Passages of State, etc.: 1618—1629 | volume=1 | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5DBDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA222&dq=%22affectionating%22%7C%22affectionated%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8toFUeSeGMapkgX4p4CIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22affectionating%22%7C%22affectionated%22&f=false | page=222
|passage=And firſt, his Majeſty would have you to underſtand, That there was
never any King more loving to his People, or better AFFECTIONATED to the right
uſe of Parliaments, than his Majeſty hath approved himſelf to be,[nb...].}}
1. * 1838 February 1, [Charles Dickens] , _To Catherine Dickens_ , 2012, Jenny Hartley (editor), _The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens_ , |%22affectionated%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8toFUeSeGMapkgX4p4CIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22affectionating%22 | %22affectionated%22&f=false page 41 (see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NJH1g1i4gnIC&pg=PA41&dq=%22affectionating%22) ,
2. *: Ever my dear Kate your AFFECTIONATED husband
3. *: CHARLES DICKENS
[en]
** Latin
*** Adjective
[la]
1. [la]
** Scots
*** Adjective
[sco-adj]
1. [en]
*** References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) _The Online Scots Dictionary (see https://web.archive.org/web/20181208134857/http://scots-online.org/dictionary/index.asp) _ , Scots Online.
[sco]