ἀμία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀμίας (amías)

Etymology

Unknown. Thompson suggests a derivation from Egyptian mehi (“kind of fish”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.mí.aː/ → /aˈmi.a/ → /aˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.a/

Noun

ἀμῐ́ᾱ • (amíā) f (genitive ἀμῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. bonito (Sarda sarda)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀμῐ́ᾱ hē amíā	τὼ ἀμῐ́ᾱ tṑ amíā	αἱ ἀμῐ́αι hai amíai
Genitive	τῆς ἀμῐ́ᾱς tês amíās	τοῖν ἀμῐ́αιν toîn amíain	τῶν ἀμῐῶν tôn amiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀμῐ́ᾳ têi amíāi	τοῖν ἀμῐ́αιν toîn amíain	ταῖς ἀμῐ́αις taîs amíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀμῐ́ᾱν tḕn amíān	τὼ ἀμῐ́ᾱ tṑ amíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s amíās
Vocative	ἀμῐ́ᾱ amíā	ἀμῐ́ᾱ amíā	ἀμῐ́αι amíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: amia
  • → Translingual: Amia

Further reading

• “ἀμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀμία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN