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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾰ̓́μνηστος (ắmnēstos, “forgotten, forgetful”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, abstract noun suffix), ultimately from μνάομαι (mnáomai, “remember”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /am.nɛːs.tí.aː/ → /am.nisˈti.a/ → /am.nisˈti.a/
Noun
ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ • (ămnēstĭ́ā) f (genitive ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- forgetfulness
- (and especially) an amnesty
- failure to mention (a thing), passing (it) over
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ἀμνηστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀμνηστία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀμνηστία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀμνηστία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “amnesty”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.