ἀμία
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- ἀμίας (amías)
Etymology edit
Unknown. Thompson suggests a derivation from Egyptian mehi (“kind of fish”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.mí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈmi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈmi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈmi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈmi.a/
Noun edit
ἀμῐ́ᾱ • (amíā) f (genitive ἀμῐ́ᾱς); first declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “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