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Amazonomachiai

Syllables: Ama·zon·o·mach·i·aiUK/ˌæ.mə.zɒ.nəˈmæ.ki.aɪ/US/ˌæ.məˌzɑ.nəˈmeɪ.kiˌaɪ/

Amazonomachiai is the plural of Amazonomachia.

Meaning of Amazonomachia

Noun

Amazonomachia (plural Amazonomachias or Amazonomachiae or (rare) Amazonomachiai)

  1. (Ancient Greece) A battle with Amazons (“mythical female warriors thought to inhabit the Black Sea region”); also (art), an artistic representation of such a scene.
    • 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...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
    Synonyms:
    Amazonomachy

Origin of Amazonomachiai

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομᾰχῐ́αι (Amazonomăkhĭ́ai).

Questions about Amazonomachiai

What is Amazonomachiai the plural of?
Amazonomachiai is the plural of Amazonomachia.
How do you pronounce Amazonomachiai?
Amazonomachiai is pronounced /ˌæ.mə.zɒ.nəˈmæ.ki.aɪ/ (UK).

Words near Amazonomachiai in the dictionary

  1. amazonite
  2. amazonites
  3. amazonitic
  4. Amazonomachia
  5. Amazonomachiae
  6. Amazonomachiai
  7. Amazonomachias
  8. Amazonomachies
  9. Amazonomachy
  10. amazons
  11. amazonstone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Amazonomachiai (page history and authors); Amazonomachia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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