amita

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amita (accusative singular amitan, plural amitaj, accusative plural amitajn)

singular past passive participle of ami

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Etymology edit

Diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *amma, *ama (“mother”), a lost baby-word of the papa-type; compare amō (“I love”), Old High German amma (“wet nurse”).

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mi.ta/, [ˈämɪt̪ä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mi.ta/, [ˈäːmit̪ä]

Noun edit

amita f (genitive amitae); first declension

paternal aunt; father's sister

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amita	amitae
Genitive	amitae	amitārum
Dative	amitae	amitīs
Accusative	amitam	amitās
Ablative	amitā	amitīs
Vocative	amita	amitae

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Italo-Dalmatian
- Dalmatian: amia
- Istriot: gnagna
Galloitalic
- Lombard: àmeda, anda
- Piedmontese: magna
- Ligurian: àmia
Old French: ante, aunte
- → Middle English: aunte, ante, aunt, awnte, naunte
  - English: aunt (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: aunt
- Middle French: tante
  - French: tante (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: tante, tànte
Old Occitan: anda
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: agne, gnagne
- Ladin: anda, amdä
- Romansch: onda
Venetian: àmia, àmeda, gnagna
- → Cimbrian: amada, gnégna
Vulgar Latin: *mita
- ⇒ Romanian: mătușă (+ -ușă (diminutive suffix))
→ Albanian: emtë

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References edit

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

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