amita

== Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aˈmita/ Rhymes: -ita Syllabification: a‧mi‧ta === Adjective === amita (accusative singular amitan, plural amitaj, accusative plural amitajn) singular past passive participle of ami == Latin == === Etymology === Diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *amma, *ama (“mother”), a lost baby-word of the papa-type; compare amō (“I love”), Old High German amma (“wet nurse”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.mɪ.ta] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.mi.ta] === Noun === amita f (genitive amitae); first declension paternal aunt; father's sister ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === See also === avunculus matertera patruus === References === === Further reading === “amita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “amita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "amita", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “amita”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.