ἀμίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄμη (ámē, “water bucket”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.mís/ → /aˈmis/ → /aˈmis/

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

Noun

ἀμῐ́ς • (amís) f (genitive ἀμῐ́δος); third declension

1. chamber pot

   Synonyms: ἐνουρήθρα (enourḗthra), οὐράνη (ouránē), οὐρητρίς (ourētrís), σκωραμίς (skōramís), χερνίβιον (kherníbion)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἀμῐ́ς; τῆς ἀμῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀμῐ́ς hē amís	τὼ ἀμῐ́δε tṑ amíde	αἱ ἀμῐ́δες hai amídes
Genitive	τῆς ἀμῐ́δος tês amídos	τοῖν ἀμῐ́δοιν toîn amídoin	τῶν ἀμῐ́δων tôn amídōn
Dative	τῇ ἀμῐ́δῐ têi amídi	τοῖν ἀμῐ́δοιν toîn amídoin	ταῖς ἀμῐ́σῐ / ἀμῐ́σῐν taîs amísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀμῐ́δᾰ tḕn amída	τὼ ἀμῐ́δε tṑ amíde	τᾱ̀ς ἀμῐ́δᾰς tā̀s amídas
Vocative	ἀμῐ́ς amís	ἀμῐ́δε amíde	ἀμῐ́δες amídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ἀμῐ́δῐον (amídion)
• σκωρᾰμῐ́ς (skōramís)

 

Further reading

• “ἀμίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀμίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀμίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)