amita
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Adjective
amita (accusative singular amitan, plural amitaj, accusative plural amitajn)
- singular past passive participle of ami
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Etymology
Diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *amma, *ama (“mother”), a lost baby-word of the papa-type; compare amō (“I love”), Old High German amma (“wet nurse”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.mɪ.ta]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.mi.t̪a]
Noun
amita f (genitive amitae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | amita | amitae |
| genitive | amitae | amitārum |
| dative | amitae | amitīs |
| accusative | amitam | amitās |
| ablative | amitā | amitīs |
| vocative | amita | amitae |
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “amma (> Derivatives > amita)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 38-9
Further reading
- “amita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “amita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "amita", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- amita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.