See Amazonomachia on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*meh₂gʰ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "Amazonomachie"
},
"expansion": "French Amazonomachie",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "Amazonomachie"
},
"expansion": "German Amazonomachie",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "learned borrowing"
},
"expansion": "learned borrowing",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "etymon"
},
"expansion": "etymon",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́ᾱ",
"notext": "1"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (Amazonomăkhĭ́ā)",
"name": "lbor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*meh₂gʰ-",
"t": "to fight"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to fight”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "qsb-grc"
},
"expansion": "Pre-Greek",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "feminine"
},
"expansion": "feminine",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "abstract noun"
},
"expansion": "abstract noun",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "plural"
},
"expansion": "plural",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "-iae",
"nocat": "1",
"pos": "plural form of <i class=\"Latn mention nowrap\" lang=\"la\">-ia</i>"
},
"expansion": "Latin -iae (plural form of -ia)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́αι",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́αι (Amazonomăkhĭ́ai)",
"name": "lbor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French Amazonomachie or German Amazonomachie, or a direct learned borrowing from their etymon Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (Amazonomăkhĭ́ā), from Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn, “mythical female warrior from the Black Sea region”) (for further etymology see that entry) + μᾰ́χη (mắkhē, “battle, combat”) (either ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to fight”) or Pre-Greek ) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).\nThe plural form Amazonomachiae is derived from Amazonomachia + Latin -iae (plural form of -ia), while Amazonomachiai is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́αι (Amazonomăkhĭ́ai).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Amazonomachias",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Amazonomachiae",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Amazonomachiai",
"tags": [
"plural",
"rare"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "+",
"2": "Amazonomachiae",
"3": "Amazonomachiai<l:rare>"
},
"expansion": "Amazonomachia (plural Amazonomachias or Amazonomachiae or (rare) Amazonomachiai)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"Ama",
"zon",
"o",
"mach",
"ia"
]
},
{
"parts": [
"Ama",
"zon",
"o",
"mach",
"i",
"ae"
]
},
{
"parts": [
"Ama",
"zon",
"o",
"mach",
"i",
"ai"
]
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Ancient Greece",
"orig": "en:Ancient Greece",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Art",
"orig": "en:Art",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mythology",
"orig": "en:Mythology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
463,
477
]
],
"ref": "1873, Samuel Birch, chapter X, in History of Ancient Pottery, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, new edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 422–423:",
"text": "In style these vases have the general Apulian type, and their art is of the same late period. […] Among the subjects are the usual Eros and Aphrodite of this style, Phrixos crossing the Hellespont on the ram, Orestes at Delphi, the sacrifice of the ram of Tantalos, Aktaion seized by his dogs, the burial of Chrysippos, Bellerophon, Meleager and the Kalydonian bear, Herakles and Geryon, the judgment of Paris, the arming of Penthesilea, Europa, the Kentaurs and Amazonomachiai, Omphale, and others of a similar kind.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
17
]
],
"ref": "1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:",
"text": "The Amazonomachia, or Amazon contest, symbolized the struggle of civilization against barbarism.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A battle with Amazons (“mythical female warriors thought to inhabit the Black Sea region”); also (art), an artistic representation of such a scene."
],
"id": "en-Amazonomachia-en-noun-7RpAniYf",
"links": [
[
"Ancient Greece",
"Ancient Greece"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"battle",
"battle#Noun"
],
[
"Amazons",
"Amazon#English"
],
[
"mythical",
"mythical"
],
[
"female",
"female#Adjective"
],
[
"warrior",
"warrior"
],
[
"thought",
"think#Verb"
],
[
"inhabit",
"inhabit"
],
[
"Black Sea",
"Black Sea"
],
[
"region",
"region"
],
[
"art",
"art#Noun"
],
[
"artistic",
"artistic#Adjective"
],
[
"representation",
"representation"
],
[
"scene",
"scene#Noun"
]
],
"qualifier": "Ancient Greece",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ancient Greece, mythology) A battle with Amazons (“mythical female warriors thought to inhabit the Black Sea region”); also (art), an artistic representation of such a scene."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Amazonomachy"
}
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "battle with Amazons; artistic representation of such a scene",
"word": "amazonomakhia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "battle with Amazons; artistic representation of such a scene",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "amazonomachie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "battle with Amazons; artistic representation of such a scene",
"word": "Amazonomachie"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "battle with Amazons; artistic representation of such a scene",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "amazzonomachia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "battle with Amazons; artistic representation of such a scene",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "amazonomaquia"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.mə.zɒ.nəˈmæ.ki.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ˈmeɪ-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.məˌzɑ.nəˈmæ.ki.ə/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ˈmeɪ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ækiə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪkiə"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.mə.zɒ.nəˈmæ.ki.iː/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-aɪ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.məˌzɑ.nəˈmeɪ.kiˌi/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-aɪ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.mə.zɒ.nəˈmæ.ki.aɪ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.məˌzɑ.nəˈmeɪ.kiˌaɪ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "Amazonomachia"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*meh₂gʰ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "Amazonomachie"
},
"expansion": "French Amazonomachie",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "Amazonomachie"
},
"expansion": "German Amazonomachie",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "learned borrowing"
},
"expansion": "learned borrowing",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "etymon"
},
"expansion": "etymon",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́ᾱ",
"notext": "1"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (Amazonomăkhĭ́ā)",
"name": "lbor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*meh₂gʰ-",
"t": "to fight"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to fight”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "qsb-grc"
},
"expansion": "Pre-Greek",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "feminine"
},
"expansion": "feminine",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "abstract noun"
},
"expansion": "abstract noun",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "plural"
},
"expansion": "plural",
"name": "lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "-iae",
"nocat": "1",
"pos": "plural form of <i class=\"Latn mention nowrap\" lang=\"la\">-ia</i>"
},
"expansion": "Latin -iae (plural form of -ia)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́αι",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́αι (Amazonomăkhĭ́ai)",
"name": "lbor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French Amazonomachie or German Amazonomachie, or a direct learned borrowing from their etymon Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (Amazonomăkhĭ́ā), from Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn, “mythical female warrior from the Black Sea region”) (for further etymology see that entry) + μᾰ́χη (mắkhē, “battle, combat”) (either ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to fight”) or Pre-Greek ) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).\nThe plural form Amazonomachiae is derived from Amazonomachia + Latin -iae (plural form of -ia), while Amazonomachiai is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́αι (Amazonomăkhĭ́ai).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Amazonomachias",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Amazonomachiae",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Amazonomachiai",
"tags": [
"plural",
"rare"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "+",
"2": "Amazonomachiae",
"3": "Amazonomachiai<l:rare>"
},
"expansion": "Amazonomachia (plural Amazonomachias or Amazonomachiae or (rare) Amazonomachiai)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"Ama",
"zon",
"o",
"mach",
"ia"
]
},
{
"parts": [
"Ama",
"zon",
"o",
"mach",
"i",
"ae"
]
},
{
"parts": [
"Ama",
"zon",
"o",
"mach",
"i",
"ai"
]
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English learned borrowings from Ancient Greek",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"English terms borrowed from French",
"English terms borrowed from German",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms derived from German",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meh₂gʰ-",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Requests for gender in German entries",
"Rhymes:English/eɪkiə",
"Rhymes:English/eɪkiə/7 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ækiə",
"Rhymes:English/ækiə/7 syllables",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"en:Ancient Greece",
"en:Art",
"en:Mythology"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
463,
477
]
],
"ref": "1873, Samuel Birch, chapter X, in History of Ancient Pottery, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, new edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 422–423:",
"text": "In style these vases have the general Apulian type, and their art is of the same late period. […] Among the subjects are the usual Eros and Aphrodite of this style, Phrixos crossing the Hellespont on the ram, Orestes at Delphi, the sacrifice of the ram of Tantalos, Aktaion seized by his dogs, the burial of Chrysippos, Bellerophon, Meleager and the Kalydonian bear, Herakles and Geryon, the judgment of Paris, the arming of Penthesilea, Europa, the Kentaurs and Amazonomachiai, Omphale, and others of a similar kind.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
17
]
],
"ref": "1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:",
"text": "The Amazonomachia, or Amazon contest, symbolized the struggle of civilization against barbarism.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A battle with Amazons (“mythical female warriors thought to inhabit the Black Sea region”); also (art), an artistic representation of such a scene."
],
"links": [
[
"Ancient Greece",
"Ancient Greece"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"battle",
"battle#Noun"
],
[
"Amazons",
"Amazon#English"
],
[
"mythical",
"mythical"
],
[
"female",
"female#Adjective"
],
[
"warrior",
"warrior"
],
[
"thought",
"think#Verb"
],
[
"inhabit",
"inhabit"
],
[
"Black Sea",
"Black Sea"
],
[
"region",
"region"
],
[
"art",
"art#Noun"
],
[
"artistic",
"artistic#Adjective"
],
[
"representation",
"representation"
],
[
"scene",
"scene#Noun"
]
],
"qualifier": "Ancient Greece",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ancient Greece, mythology) A battle with Amazons (“mythical female warriors thought to inhabit the Black Sea region”); also (art), an artistic representation of such a scene."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Amazonomachy"
}
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.mə.zɒ.nəˈmæ.ki.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ˈmeɪ-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.məˌzɑ.nəˈmæ.ki.ə/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ˈmeɪ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ækiə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪkiə"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.mə.zɒ.nəˈmæ.ki.iː/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-aɪ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.məˌzɑ.nəˈmeɪ.kiˌi/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-aɪ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.mə.zɒ.nəˈmæ.ki.aɪ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæ.məˌzɑ.nəˈmeɪ.kiˌaɪ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "battle with Amazons; artistic representation of such a scene",
"word": "amazonomakhia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "battle with Amazons; artistic representation of such a scene",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "amazonomachie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "battle with Amazons; artistic representation of such a scene",
"word": "Amazonomachie"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "battle with Amazons; artistic representation of such a scene",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "amazzonomachia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "battle with Amazons; artistic representation of such a scene",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "amazonomaquia"
}
],
"word": "Amazonomachia"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Amazonomachia meaning in All languages combined (7.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.