ἀμία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀμίας (amías)

Etymology

Unknown. Thompson suggests a derivation from Egyptian mehi (“kind of fish”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.mí.aː/ → /aˈmi.a/ → /aˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.a/

Noun

ἀμῐ́ᾱ • (amĭ́ā) f (genitive ἀμῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. bonito (Sarda sarda)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀμῐ́ᾱ hē amĭ́ā	τὼ ἀμῐ́ᾱ tṑ amĭ́ā	αἱ ἀμῐ́αι hai amĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἀμῐ́ᾱς tês amĭ́ās	τοῖν ἀμῐ́αιν toîn amĭ́ain	τῶν ἀμῐῶν tôn amĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἀμῐ́ᾳ têi amĭ́āi	τοῖν ἀμῐ́αιν toîn amĭ́ain	ταῖς ἀμῐ́αις taîs amĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἀμῐ́ᾱν tḕn amĭ́ān	τὼ ἀμῐ́ᾱ tṑ amĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ἀμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s amĭ́ās
Vocative	ἀμῐ́ᾱ amĭ́ā	ἀμῐ́ᾱ amĭ́ā	ἀμῐ́αι amĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: amia
  • → Translingual: Amia

Further reading

• “ἀμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀμία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN