amnis

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Noun

amnis

1. plural of amni

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Latin

Etymology

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From Old Latin *abnis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-, cognate with Sanskrit अप् (ap, “water”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹𐎠 (apiyā, “into the water”), Tocharian B āp (“water”), Hittite 𒄩𒉺𒀀 (ḫa-pa-a, “towards the river”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈam.nis/, [ˈämnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.nis/, [ˈämnis]

Noun

amnis m (genitive amnis); third declension

1. Broad, deep flowing, rapid water; stream, torrent, river; ocean; liquid; current.
2. (figuratively, of a writer) The flowing, flow or pouring out of a piece of writing.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amnis	amnēs
Genitive	amnis	amnium
Dative	amnī	amnibus
Accusative	amnem	amnēs amnīs
Ablative	amne amnī	amnibus
Vocative	amnis	amnēs

Synonyms

• (river): flūmen

Derived terms

• amnicola
• amniculus
• amnicus
• amnigena

 

Descendants

• French: amnicole

References

• “amnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amnis 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)
• amnis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.