amnis

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Pronunciation

Noun

amnis

  1. 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

  1. Broad, deep flowing, rapid water; stream, torrent, river; ocean; liquid; current.
    Synonym: flūmen
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.164:
      [...] ruunt dē montibus amnēs.
      [Heavy rain falls:] Torrents rush down the mountains.
  2. (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).

singular plural
nominative amnis amnēs
genitive amnis amnium
dative amnī amnibus
accusative amnem amnēs
amnīs
ablative amne
amnī 		amnibus
vocative amnis amnēs

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 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.
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