amistà

From Old Occitan amistat, from Vulgar Latin *amīcitātem, derived from Latin amīcus (“friend”). Attested since the 1240s, a regular apocope of Old Italian amistade (as a personal name since 12th c.). Eventually replaced by the Latinism amicizia. Compare Sicilian amistà and amistati.

• IPA^(key): /a.miˈsta/^*
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧mi‧stà

amistà f (invariable)

1. amity, friendship

• → Friulian: amistât

• amistà in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• amistà in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/index.php?vox=020819.htm
• https://www.academia.edu/3885879/Ghost_words_and_new_discoveries_in_the_TLIO_Old_Italian_dictionary

• amasti