amicus
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Abbreviation of amicus curiae.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]amicus (plural amici)
- (law, informal) Someone not a party to a case who submits a brief and/or presents oral argument in that case.
Synonyms
[edit]- amicus curiae (formal)
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From amō (“I love”) + -īcus, with the ending perhaps derived from Proto-Indo-European *-ih₁ (instrumental suffix) + *-kos, as also in pudīcus, mendīcus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈmiː.kus/, [äˈmiːkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈmi.kus/, [äˈmiːkus]
Adjective
[edit]amīcus (feminine amīca, neuter amīcum, comparative amīcior, superlative amīcissimus, adverb amīcē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | amīcus | amīca | amīcum | amīcī | amīcae | amīca | |
genitive | amīcī | amīcae | amīcī | amīcōrum | amīcārum | amīcōrum | |
dative | amīcō | amīcae | amīcō | amīcīs | |||
accusative | amīcum | amīcam | amīcum | amīcōs | amīcās | amīca | |
ablative | amīcō | amīcā | amīcō | amīcīs | |||
vocative | amīce | amīca | amīcum | amīcī | amīcae | amīca |
Noun
[edit]amīcus m (genitive amīcī, feminine amīca); second declension
- male friend
- Synonyms: necessārius, comes, sodālis, concordia
- amīcum parāre ― to make a friend; to befriend
- (Augustan and later) courtier, minister, counsellor
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | amīcus | amīcī |
genitive | amīcī | amīcōrum |
dative | amīcō | amīcīs |
accusative | amīcum | amīcōs |
ablative | amīcō | amīcīs |
vocative | amīce | amīcī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- “amīcus” on page 130 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “amō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “amicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “amicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- amicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- amicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- he received from the senate the title of friend: a senatu amicus appellatus est (B. G. 1. 3)
- (ambiguous) to be friendly with any one: uti aliquo amico
- he received from the senate the title of friend: a senatu amicus appellatus est (B. G. 1. 3)
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