Amphissa

Amphissa

1. Alternative spelling of Amfissa

• Amphisa

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄμφισσα (Ámphissa).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /amˈpʰis.sa/, [ämˈpʰɪs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /amˈfis.sa/, [ämˈfisːä]

Amphissa f sg (genitive Amphissae); first declension

1. an ancient town, the chief town of Locris in modern Greece
2. a promontory of Bruttium in modern region of Calabria, Italy

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Amphissius

• “Amphissa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Amphissa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Amphissa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly