ἀμνηστία

See also: αμνηστία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀμνηστῐ́η (amnēstĭ́ē) — Ionic

Etymology

From ᾰ̓́μνηστος (ắmnēstos, “forgotten, forgetful”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, abstract noun suffix), ultimately from μνάομαι (mnáomai, “remember”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /am.nɛːs.tí.aː/ → /am.nisˈti.a/ → /am.nisˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /am.nɛːs.tí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /am.ne̝sˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /am.nisˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /am.nisˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /am.nisˈti.a/

Noun

ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ • (ămnēstĭ́ā) f (genitive ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. forgetfulness
   1. (and especially) an amnesty
2. failure to mention (a thing), passing (it) over

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ hē ămnēstĭ́ā	τὼ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ tṑ ămnēstĭ́ā	αἱ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́αι hai ămnēstĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱς tês ămnēstĭ́ās	τοῖν ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́αιν toîn ămnēstĭ́ain	τῶν ᾰ̓μνηστῐῶν tôn ămnēstĭôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾳ tēî ămnēstĭ́āi	τοῖν ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́αιν toîn ămnēstĭ́ain	ταῖς ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́αις taîs ămnēstĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱν tḕn ămnēstĭ́ān	τὼ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ tṑ ămnēstĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ămnēstĭ́ās
Vocative	ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ ămnēstĭ́ā	ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ ămnēstĭ́ā	ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́αι ămnēstĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αμνηστία (amnistía)
  • → Catalan: amnistia, mistia
  • → French: amnistie
    • → Portuguese: amnistia, anistia (Brazilian)
  • → German: Amnistie (obsolete)
  • → Italian: amnistia, annistia
  • → Ladin: amnistia
  • → Polish: amnistja (obsolete)
    • → Bulgarian: амни́стия (amnístija)
    • → Russian: амни́стия (amnístija)
      • → Armenian: ամնիստիա (amnistia)
  • → Spanish: amnistía
• → Latin: amnestia
  • → Esperanto: amnestio
  • → Middle French: amnestie
    • → Czech: amnestie
    • → Danish: amnesti
    • → English: amnesty
    • → Ladin: amnestia
    • → Macedonian: амнестија (amnestija)
    • → Dutch: amnestie
      • → Indonesian: amnesti
    • → Norwegian: amnesti
    • → Polish: amnestia
    • → Serbo-Croatian: amnèstija, амнѐстија
    • → Swedish: amnesti
  • → German: Amnestie
  • → Hungarian: amnesztia

References

• “ἀμνηστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀμνηστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀμνηστία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀμνηστία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “amnesty”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.