amita
Esperanto
Adjective
amita (accusative singular amitan, plural amitaj, accusative plural amitajn)
- 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 Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.mi.ta/, [ˈämɪt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.mi.ta/, [ˈäːmit̪ä]
Noun
amita f (genitive amitae); first declension
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
Descendants
- Dalmatian: amia
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: mătușă (suffixed)
- Lombard: anda (Ticinese)
- Old French: ante
- French: tante
- Old Occitan: anda
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Venetian: àmeda, àmia
- → Albanian: emtë
See also
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.
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- Esperanto adjectival participles
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 3-syllable words
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- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
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