Relating to or characteristic of an amita (father's sister); relating to a paternal aunt.
From Latin 'amita' (father's sister) plus the suffix '-ar' (relating to or characterized by). The term is rare and primarily found in anthropological or genealogical texts discussing kinship systems.
Kinship terminology reveals how cultures think about family—Latin had separate words for 'father's sister' (amita) and 'mother's sister' (matertera), showing that Romans categorized aunts differently based on which parent they came from.
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