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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.maˈsiː.a/

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.

References

• Ămăsīa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Amăsīa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 109/2.

Latin

Noun

amāsia f ‎(genitive amāsiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a concubine

Declension

First declension.

Synonyms

• (a concubine): amīca, concubīna, coniūnx, paelex, pallaca (all Classical)

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)