innamorato

See also: Innamorato

English

Noun

innamorato (plural innamoratos)

1. Alternative form of inamorato.
   • 1793 [1771], Tobias Smollett, “To Sir Watkin Phillips, Bart. at Oxon.”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, volume II, London: […] H[enry] D[elahoy] Symonds, […]; and T. Kay, […], page 179:

     Her innamorato, who came hither very ſlenderly equipt, has ſent for his baggage to London, which, in all probability, will not arrive in time for the wedding; […]

     Changed from inamorato.

   • 1820, John Laurens Bicknell, “Sarah Lloyd; a Burlesque Novel”, in Original Miscellanies, in Prose and Verse, London: T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […]; and W[illiam] Blackwood, Edinburgh, chapter VI, page 69:

     “Sir,” said the amiable damsel, (wiping with the tail of her petticoat a tear which started to her eye, upon hearing such scurvy epithets applied to her innamorato,) “How can you?”

   • 1829, P[eter] Dillon, “Occurrences from Tonga to the Island of Rothuma, and Thence to Tucopia and Mannicolo”, in Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas, Performed by Order of the Government of British India, to Ascertain the Actual Fate of La Pérouse’s Expedition, […], volume II, London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., […], page 136:

     If a wife be caught sinning, she and her innamorato are put to death by the husband or his friends.

   • 1831 February, X. [pseudonym], “The Merchant’s Daughter”, in The Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, 1831 volume I (Original Papers), number XIV, Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co. […], chapter III, page 108:

     They had supped at the saloon, of infamous celebrity in company with the female, to whom we have alluded, and who unfortunately left the fish shop time enough before her innamorato to excite a fatal passion in the bosom of the complainant.

   • 1832 June 23, “Foreign Review. Esquisses de la Souffrance Morale. Par Edouard Alletz. Tome II. Paris.”, in The Original; a Weekly Miscellany of Humour, Literature, and the Fine Arts, number 17, London: […] [F]or the Proprietors, by G. Cowie, […], page 269, column 1:

     He then takes her to Paris, where her uneducated head betrays her heart, and she prepares a world of “moral suffering” for her justly jealous husband. In a duel with her innamorato he is wounded, on which he separates from her without éclat, though with much pain, and resorts to travelling, but finds her on his return enjoying a criminal notoriety in Paris, which urges him to obtain a formal divorce.

   • 1834, William Godwin, “Forman and Others”, in Lives of the Necromancers: or, An Account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power, London: Frederick J. Mason, […], page 410:

     This however did not satisfy the lady; and having gone the utmost lengths towards her innamorato, she insisted on a divorce in all the forms, and a legal marriage with the youth she loved.

     Another edition published in the same year has inamorato.

   • 1837 [1831], Mrs. John Sandford [i.e., Elizabeth Sandford], “On Female Romance”, in Woman, in Her Social and Domestic Character, 5th edition, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […], page 150:

     Opposition is its nourishment, for it is her ambition to be a heroine; and though she might disdain her innamorato were he admitted to her mother’s drawing-room, she will think him irresistible as she smiles on him from a garret-window; and will nurse and pamper her capricious and wayward fancy, till it becomes a dangerous disease.

     Changed from inamorato.

   • 1845, chapter VI, in The Ruling Passion, volume I, London: […] T[homas] C[autley] Newby, […], page 131:

     To this conclusion everything so smoothly tended, that Juliana found herself Mrs. Brading, some little time before the failings and defects of her innamorato gleamed upon her awakened senses.

   • 1854 [1853 July], C. David Badham, “Cyprinidæ, or Carps”, in Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], page 284:

     The marquis procured, for three louis, a string of the newly introduced false pearls, and presented them to the fair Cleopatra, who, forming from the offering a wrong estimate of her innamorato’s purse, yielded with the sweetest grace to his suit.

     Changed from inamorato.

   • [1859] [1847], [John Davis], “I Promessi Sposi”, in Jack Ariel, London: Charles H. Clarke, […], page 391:

     The sun rose and showered its glories on the summer-house, in which Cicely sat to receive her innamorato.

     Changed from inamorato.

   • 1862 January, “[Miscellaneous.] A Chronic Opponent.”, in J[ohn] J[ames] Drysdale, R[obert] E[llis] Dudgeon, editors, The British Journal of Homœopathy, volume XX, number LXXIX, London: H. Turner & Co., […], page 161:

     One fine morning this young lady received a letter from her innamorato, couched in the following terms:⁠—[…]

   • 1871 [1730–1 February 6], Alexander Pope, “[Letter] 118. Pope to [John] Caryll [the younger].”, in The Works of Alexander Pope. New Edition. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, […], volume VI (Correspondence.—Vol. I.), London: John Murray, […], page 327:

     Lady Sola is not so sola as I described to you in my last, for her innamorato is returned.

     Unknown whether changed or not.

   • 1873, ““Wooed, and Married, and A’.””, in Heathergate, volume I, London: Henry S[amuel] King & Co., […], page 280:

     Besides, after all, these hasty marriages turn out remarkably well,—far better than many where the fair damsel and her innamorato wear one another to fiddle strings by the jealousies and misunderstandings of a long engagement at home; or where the girl stays at home losing bloom and beauty, and the man knocks about the world, picturing his Rosa Matilda just as he left her.

   • 1925, William S[hakespear] Childe-Pemberton, The Earl Bishop: The Life of Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry, Earl of Bristol, volume II, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company, pages 363–364:

     Were report to be credited, some of the finest women and of the first rank in Ireland have thought him not unworthy of being enrolled among the list of their innamoratos, but as we consider these ladies’ names sacred we shall pass over their connections without any further comment in order to introduce the amiable Mrs. H⁠—⁠— who does not take any particular pains to conceal her attachment to the Patriotic Prelate.

   • 1970 [1843], A[lec] D[erwent] Hope, quoting John Grant, A Midsummer Eve’s Dream: Variations on a Theme by William Dunbar, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, page 267:

     The Reverend John Grant, a learned and not illiberal minister who wrote the account of the parish in which Tomintoul stands, for The Statistical Account of Scotland, described the life of the village: / No monopolies are established here; no restraints upon the industry of the community. All of them sell whisky, and all of them drink it. When disengaged from this business, the women spin yarn, kiss their innamoratos or dance to the discordant sounds of an old fiddle.

     Changed from inamoratos.

   • 1996, Jackson I. Cope, “Siena: Piccolomini’s Dialogo and the Rozzi Rusticali”, in Secret Sharers in Italian Comedy: From Machiavelli to Goldoni, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 70:

     Honesty has already become interchangeable with secrecy, though; without a pause Erifile sends her innamorato permission to visit her that very night—disguised as a woman.

   • 1998, Angelica Forti-Lewis, “Commedia dell’ Arte”, in Vicki K. Janik, editor, Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 151:

     The innamorata, whose purity is as absolute as it is unassailable and whose love is genteelly, albeit possessively, bestowed upon her innamorato, always desperately needs Colombina’s and Arlecchino’s help, together with her beloved, in order to oppose Pantalone’s and/or Dottore’s plans.

   • 2006, Ida Liberkowski, Cynthia Malizia, “September 15, 2000”, in Along the Amalfi Drive, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 370:

     I surmise that Carol probably doesn’t even realize that this is her innamorato, . . . but in seconds I see Carol coyly smiling and batting her eyelashes at the guy. The opera’s over; the fat lady has sung. Carol has met her innamorato and, indeed, there appears to be a chemistry.

Italian

Etymology

From innamorare. Compare Portuguese namorado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.na.moˈra.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: in‧na‧mo‧rà‧to

Adjective

innamorato (feminine innamorata, masculine plural innamorati, feminine plural innamorate, superlative innamoratissimo)

1. in love, loving, smitten
2. fond of, crazy about, in love with

Derived terms

• innamoratamente

Noun

innamorato m (plural innamorati, feminine innamorata)

1. lover, boyfriend, sweetheart

   Synonym: (regional) moroso

Participle

innamorato (feminine innamorata, masculine plural innamorati, feminine plural innamorate)

1. past participle of innamorare

Related terms

• innamorarsi
• amore