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ἀμνηστία
ἀμνηστία
See also: αμνηστία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀμνηστῐ́η (amnēstíē) Ionic
Noun
ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ • (amnēstíā) f (genitive ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- forgetfulness
- (and especially) an amnesty
- failure to mention (a thing), passing (it) over
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ | τὼ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ | αἱ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́αι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱς | τοῖν ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́αιν | τῶν ᾰ̓μνηστῐῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾳ | τοῖν ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́αιν | ταῖς ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́αις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱν | τὼ ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ | τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ | ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́ᾱ | ᾰ̓μνηστῐ́αι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Greek: αμνηστία (amnistía)
- English: amnesty
- French: amnistie
- Portuguese: amnistia
- Latin: amnestia
- Polish: amnestia, amnistja
References
- ἀμνηστία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀμνηστία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ἀμνηστία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ἀμνηστία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- amnesty in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911