• ᾰ̓μφῐ́ (ămphĭ́)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”), same source as Old High German umbi (“around”), Old Irish imb, Old English ymbe, Latin ambi-, Sanskrit अभितस् (abhítas, “on both sides”).

ᾰ̓μφῐ́ς • (ămphĭ́s)

1. on both sides
2. around
3. apart, asunder
4. separately
5. between

ᾰ̓μφῐ́ς • (ămphĭ́s) (governs the genitive)

1. around
2. apart from, far from

While ἀμφίς is technically simply an alternative spelling of ἀμφί, in practice the former generally functions as an adverb, and the latter as a preposition. Both are largely replaced by περί in later Greek.

• “ἀμφίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀμφίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀμφίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀμφίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀμφίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀμφίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἀμφίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter