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Latin
Etymology
Regular feminisation of amāsius (“a lover”).
Pronunciation
Noun
amāsia f (genitive amāsiae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) a concubine
Declension
First-declension noun.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- amasia 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)
- “amasia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “amasia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “amasia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 39/1
Portuguese
Verb
amasia
- inflection of amasiar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative