amita

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Adjective

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

1. singular past passive participle of ami

Latin

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mi.ta/, [ˈämɪt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mi.ta/, [ˈäːmit̪ä]

Noun

amita f (genitive amitae); first declension

1. paternal aunt; father's sister

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amita	amitae
Genitive	amitae	amitārum
Dative	amitae	amitīs
Accusative	amitam	amitās
Ablative	amitā	amitīs
Vocative	amita	amitae

Derived terms

Derived terms

• amita magna
• amita maior
• amita maxima
• amitīnus

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Dalmatian: amia
  • Istriot: gnagna
• Galloitalic
  • Lombard: àmeda, anda
  • Piedmontese: magna
  • Ligurian: àmia
• Old French: ante, aunte
  • → 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
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: agne, gnagne
  • Ladin: anda, amdä
  • Romansch: onda
• Venetian: àmia, àmeda, gnagna
  • → Cimbrian: amada, gnégna
• Vulgar Latin: *mita
  • ⇒ Romanian: mătușă (+ -ușă (diminutive suffix))
• → Albanian: emtë

See also

• avunculus
• matertera
• patruus

References

• “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.