Meanings
comparative more amene · superlative most amene · alternative obsolete amoene · alternative obsolete amœne
- obsoleteuncommonPleasant; agreeable.
Nothing can be more amene or gracious than this modified Pampa form in fine weather.
1870, Richard Francis Burton, Letters from the Battlefields of Paraguay, page 1451 more example
MAY is a month maist amene / For them in Venus' service bene, / To recreate their heavy hearts: […]
1866, Allan Ramsay(?), The Poetical Works of Allan Ramsay. With Selections from the Scottish Poets, page 295
Origin
- Latinamoenus“pleasant”
- Middle Frenchamene
- Middle Englishamene
- Englishamene
Inherited from Middle English amene, from Middle French amene, from Latin amoenus (“pleasant”).
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