amidos

English

Noun

amidos

1. plural of amido

Anagrams

• Daoism, samoid

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• ambidos

Etymology

Inherited from Latin invītus, an adverbialisation of a nominative adjective. Often found with a preceding a or de, much like the Old Galician-Portuguese envidos~anvidos.

/nβ/ merged with /mb/ early on (hence vacillating spellings like convenir~combenir). The morpheme boundary *em-bidos, already shaky in the absence of a word such as *bidos, collapsed once contamination with the preceding preposition a resulted in ambidos, no longer analysable as a prefixed form. (Although a prefix a- did exist, it could not be seen as a constituent of ambidos, since that would imply a following element with the impossible onset /mb/.) Now stranded in the interior of the word, /mb/ was subjected to the same intervocalic attrition seen in Latin palumbēs, lumbus > Spanish paloma, lomo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈmidos/

Adverb

amidos

1. unwillingly, reluctantly
   • Ca. 1230–1237, Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos, 104

     Ixió del monesterio el sennor a amidos
     Despidióse de todos los sus fraires queridos...

     Sir [Dominic] left the monastery reluctantly
     He bade farewell to all his dear fellow-monks...

   • Ca. 1250, anonymous, Libro de los buenos proverbios que dijeron los filósofos y sabios antiguos (ed. by Harlam Sturm, 1971)

     Yo non sé ál que vos diga, mas se que me sacaran a amidos deste sieglo, y visque en el sieglo y saldre d'él amidos.

     I do not know what else to say to all of you, but I will be taken out unwillingly from this world; I lived in this world, and I will leave it unwillingly.

References

• Ford, Jeremiah Denis Matthias. 1903. Old Spanish etymologies. Modern Philology 1. Page 54.
• Gottfried Baist, "Romanische Sprachwissenschaft B. Die Romanischen Sprachen. 7. Die Spanische Sprache", Grundriss Der Romanischen Philologie [...], 1904-1906, page 904
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “amidos”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 244

Portuguese

Noun

amidos

1. plural of amido