Atthis

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, after Atthis (“a mythological Greek woman, after whom Actaea was renamed Attica”), from Ancient Greek Ἀτθίς (Atthís).

Proper noun

Atthis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae – certain hummingbirds.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Apodiformes – order; Trochilidae – family; Trochilinae – subfamily

References

• Atthis (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Atthis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀτθῐ́ς (Atthís, “Attic”, as a noun “the Attic dialect, the history of Athens, Athens itself”, feminine adjective).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈat.tʰis/, [ˈät̪ːʰɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.tis/, [ˈät̪ːis]

Proper noun

Atthis f sg (genitive Atthidos); third declension

1. (Late Latin) Attic Greek (prestige dialect of Ancient Greek)

   Coordinate terms: Aeolis f, coenē f, Dōris f, Ias f

   • late AD 4th century, Diomedes Grammaticus, Artis Grammaticae libri III 440.5:

     Quinque sunt linguae Graecorum, Ias Doris Atthis Aeolis coene.

   • late AD 4th century, Diomedes Grammaticus, Artis Grammaticae libri III 440.16–23:

     Atthis, quae brevitati studet, admittit soloecismos, quos cum docti fecerint, non soloecismi sed schemata logu appellantur, ut est
      n u d a   g e n u
     et
      u r b e m   q u a m   s t a t u o   v e s t r a   e s t.
     ibi enim nudum genu habens debuit dicere et urbs quam statuo vestra est. sed serviens schemati quod appellatur hellenismos tres partes orationis redegit in duas usus per Atticismon.

     Attic, which favours concision, allows solecisms [which], when learned men have committed them, are called not solecisms but figures of speech, as for instance “nuda genu” [Virgil, Aeneid 1.320] and “urbem quam statuo vestra est” [opere citato 1.573]. For in those places [Virgil] ought to have said “nudum genu habens” and “urbs quam statuo vestra est”. But in service to the [rhetorical] figure, that which is called Hellenism has reduced the three parts of speech to the two of usage on account of Atticism.

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Atthis
genitive	Atthidos
dative	Atthidī
accusative	Atthida
ablative	Atthide
vocative	Atthis Atthi1

¹In poetry.

Further reading

• “Atthis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Atthis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 183/2.