amateur
English
/ˈæ.mə.tə/, /ˈæ.mə.tɚ/
noun
Definitions
- (now) A lover of something.
- A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; especially one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
- Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.
Etymology
Borrowed from French amateur (amateur) derived from Latin amātōr (lover).
Origin
Latin
amātōr
Gloss
lover
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Ammie English
- amateurish English
- amateurishly English
- amateurishness English
- amateurism English
- amateurization English
- amateurize English
- amateurly English
- amateurship English
- sham English
- shamateur English
- shamateurism English
- unamateurish English
- amatööri Finnish
- amator Latin
- amātor Latin
- amātōr Latin
- amātōrem Latin
- Amateur German
- amateur Italian
- amateur Dutch, Flemish
- amateurisme Dutch, Flemish
- amateur French
- amateurisme French
- amateuriste French
- amateur Spanish, Castilian
- amatör Swedish
- amaitéarach Irish
- amatør Danish
- amatér Czech
- amater Serbo-Croatian
- amateur Catalan, Valencian
- amatör Turkish
- 愛美的 Chinese
- amata Tok Pisin