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amene en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /əˈmiːn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English amene, from Middle French amene, from Latin amoenus (“pleasant”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, uncommon) Pleasant; agreeable.
   • 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
   • 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 145:

Forms

Relateds

amenity · amenous