amnis

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈam.nis/

amnis

1. plural of amni

From Old Latin *abnis, from Proto-Italic *afnis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ph₃nís, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-.

Cognate with Sanskrit अप् (áp, “water”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹𐎠 (a-p-i-y-a /apiyā/, “into the water”), Tocharian B āp (“water”), Hittite 𒄩𒉺𒀀 (ḫa-pa-a, “towards the river”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.nis/, [ˈämnɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.nis/, [ˈämnis]

amnis m (genitive amnis); third declension

1. Broad, deep flowing, rapid water; stream, torrent, river; ocean; liquid; current.
2. (figuratively, of a writer) The flowing, flow or pouring out of a piece of writing.

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

• (river): flūmen

• “amnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amnis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• amnis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette