abamita

Latin

Etymology

From ab +‎ amita (“paternal aunt; father's sister”); a diminutive of a lost baby-word of the papa-type.

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈba.mi.ta/, [äˈbämɪt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈba.mi.ta/, [äˈbäːmit̪ä]

Noun

abamita f (genitive abamitae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a sister of a great-great-grandfather

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	abamita	abamitae
genitive	abamitae	abamitārum
dative	abamitae	abamitīs
accusative	abamitam	abamitās
ablative	abamitā	abamitīs
vocative	abamita	abamitae

Synonyms

• amita maxima

Coordinate terms

• abmātertera

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈba.mi.taː/, [äˈbämɪt̪äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈba.mi.ta/, [äˈbäːmit̪ä]

Noun

abamitā f

1. ablative singular of abamita

See also

• abavus

References

• “abamita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abamita 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)
• abamita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.