amita
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Adjective[edit]
amita (accusative singular amitan, plural amitaj, accusative plural amitajn)
- singular past passive participle of ami
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
amita f (genitive amitae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | amita | amitae |
Genitive | amitae | amitārum |
Dative | amitae | amitīs |
Accusative | amitam | amitās |
Ablative | amitā | amitīs |
Vocative | amita | amitae |
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Derived terms
Descendants[edit]
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Galloitalic
- Old French: ante
- Old Occitan: anda
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Venetian: àmia, àmeda, gnagna
- Vulgar Latin: *mita
- ⇒ Romanian: mătușă (+ -ușă (diminutive suffix))
- → Albanian: emtë
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “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
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