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Amasia

Amasia

See also: amasia and amásia

English

Proper noun

Amasia

  1. (plate tectonics) The hypothetical future supercontinent resulting from the merger of Eurasia and North America, predicted to form over the north pole in 50–200 million years’ time.

Coordinate terms

  • (hypothetical future supercontinent): Neopangaea, Novopangaea, Pangaea II, Pangaea Proxima, Pangaea Ultima

Translations


Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ἀμάσεια (Amáseia).

Pronunciation

Noun

Amasīa f (genitive Amasīae); first declension

  1. Amasya (a town in Pontus, on the river Iris, the birthplace of Strabo)
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
nominative Amasīa
genitive Amasīae
dative Amasīae
accusative Amasīam
ablative Amasīā
vocative Amasīa
locative Amasīae

References

amasia

amasia

See also: Amasia and amásia

Latin

Noun

amāsia f (genitive amāsiae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) a concubine

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative amāsia amāsiae
genitive amāsiae amāsiārum
dative amāsiae amāsiīs
accusative amāsiam amāsiās
ablative amāsiā amāsiīs
vocative amāsia amāsiae

Synonyms

References

  • AMASIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • amasia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • amasia in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • amasia” on page 39/1 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)