Ἀμύντας
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Doric form of ἀμύντης (amúntēs, “defender”), from ἀμύνω (amúnō).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.mýn.taːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈmyn.tas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈmyn.tas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈmyn.tas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈmin.das/
Proper noun
Ἀμύντᾱς • (Amúntās) m (genitive Ἀμύντου); first declension
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- Ἀμύντας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Ἀμύντας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,001