Possible Clues:

• Very briefly, in today's slang
• I love, in old Rome
• Latin trio leader
• Te-__: cigar brand
• 'I love,' to Cato
• Cato's "I love"
• 'Ti --' (Italian 'I love you')
• Love, in Esperanto
• 'Just ___' ('Be right with you')
• First in a Latin 101 trio