See also: amasia and amásia

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Etymology edit

Blend of Am(erica) +‎ (Eur)asia.

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Proper noun edit

Amasia

  1. (plate tectonics) The hypothetical future supercontinent resulting from the merger of Eurasia and North America, predicted to form over the north pole in 50–200 million years’ time.

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hypothetical future supercontinent

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

From the Ancient Greek Ἀμάσεια (Amáseia).

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Noun edit

Amasīa f sg (genitive Amasīae); first declension

  1. Amasya (a town in Pontus, on the river Iris, the birthplace of Strabo)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension edit

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Amasīa
Genitive Amasīae
Dative Amasīae
Accusative Amasīam
Ablative Amasīā
Vocative Amasīa
Locative Amasīae

References edit

  • Ămăsīa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Amăsīa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 109/2

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