amasia

See also: Amasia and amásia

Latin

Etymology

Regular feminisation of amāsius (“a lover”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈmaː.si.a/, [äˈmäːs̠iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈma.si.a/, [äˈmäːs̬iä]

Noun

amāsia f (genitive amāsiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a concubine

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amāsia	amāsiae
Genitive	amāsiae	amāsiārum
Dative	amāsiae	amāsiīs
Accusative	amāsiam	amāsiās
Ablative	amāsiā	amāsiīs
Vocative	amāsia	amāsiae

Synonyms

• (a concubine): amīca, concubīna, coniūnx, paelex, pallaca (all Classical)

References

• amasia 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)
• “amasia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “amasia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “amasia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 39/1