amnis

amnis

1. plural of amni

From Old Latin *abnis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-, cognate with Sanskrit अप् (ap, “water”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹𐎠 (apiyā, “into the water”), Tocharian B āp (“water”), Hittite 𒄩𒉺𒀀 (ḫa-pa-a, “towards the river”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.nis/, [ˈam.nɪs]

amnis m (genitive amnis); third declension

1. Broad, deep flowing, rapid water; stream, torrent, river; ocean; liquid; current.
2. (figuratively, of a writer) The flowing, flow or pouring out of a piece of writing.

Third declension, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

• (river): flūmen

• French: amnicole

• 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, 1883–1887)
• amnis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette