amnis

Catalan

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).

Case 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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