affectionately

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English affectionate

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English affectionately

From affectionate + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈfɛkʃənətli/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: af‧fec‧tion‧ate‧ly

Adverb

affectionately (comparative more affectionately, superlative most affectionately)

1. In an affectionate manner.

   Catherine is affectionately known as "Kit Kat" to her friends.

   The couple were touching each other affectionately.

   • 2009 March 22, Susanna Hamner, “Harley, You’re Not Getting Any Younger”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 November 2020:

     After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:affectionately.

Translations

in an affectionate manner

• Catalan: afectuosament (ca)
• Esperanto: ame, aminde
• Finnish: hellästi (fi)
• French: affectueusement (fr)
• Norman: affectueusement
• Polish: czule (pl)
• Portuguese: afetuosamente, carinhosamente
• Spanish: afectuosamente (es)