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Pronunciation
Noun
amnis
- plural of amni
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ebʰ-n- (“river”), from the root *h₂ebʰ-, *h₂ep- (“water”).[1] Compare Old Irish aub (“river”), Albanian amë (“river”).
Pronunciation
Noun
amnis m (genitive amnis); third declension
- Broad, deep flowing, rapid water; stream, torrent, river; ocean; liquid; current.
- Synonym: flūmen
- (figuratively, of a writer) The flowing, flow or pouring out of a piece of writing.
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).
Derived terms
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “amnis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 39
Further reading
- “amnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “amnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- amnis 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)
- amnis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.