amussis

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈmʊs.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈmus.sis]

amussis f (genitive amussis); third declension

1. a ruler, a mason's or carpenter's straight edge
2. precision

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī).

• ad amussim
• examussim

• “amussis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• amussis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “amussis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “amussis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin