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amita (accusative singular amitan, plural amitaj, accusative plural amitajn)

singular past passive participle of ami

Latin

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amita

/marītus sorōris

/ uxor frātris

frāter uxōris

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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): [ˈäː.mi.t̪ä]

Noun

amita f (genitive amitae); first declension

paternal aunt; father's sister

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

Italo-Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: amia
- Istriot: gnagna
- Venetan: àmia, àmeda, gnagna
  - → Cimbrian: amada, gnégna
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: agne, gnagne
- Ladin: anda, amdä
- Romansch: onda
Gallo-Italic:
- Lombard: àmeda, anda
- Piedmontese: magna
- Ligurian: àmia
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: ante, aunte (Anglo-Norman)
  - → Middle English: aunte, ante, aunt, awnte, naunte
    - English: aunt (see there for further descendants)
    - Scots: aunt
  - Middle French: tante
    - French: tante (see there for further descendants)
  - Norman: tante, tànte
- Old Occitan: anda
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mita
- ⇒ Romanian: mătușă (+ -ușă (diminutive suffix))
Borrowings:
- → Albanian: emtë

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.

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