'Amorite-styled' originates from English, specifically from the ethnonym 'Amorite' combined with the past-participial adjective 'styled', where 'Amorite' referred to the ancient Amorite people and 'styled' meant 'made or fashioned in the manner of'.

'Amorite' ultimately traces back to Akkadian 'Amurru' (the name for the Amorite people and their land), entered Biblical Hebrew as 'ʿImorī' and then passed through Greek and Latin into English as 'Amorite'; the compound 'Amorite-styled' is a modern English formation using the adjective-forming element 'styled'.

Initially, 'Amorite' identified the people, their language, or related places; over time, especially in modern descriptive usage, compounds like 'Amorite-styled' extended the sense to "in the manner of the Amorites" or "inspired by Amorite form/technique".