amicus

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of amicus curiae.

Noun

amicus (plural amici)

1. (law, informal) Someone not a party to a case who submits a brief and/or presents oral argument in that case.

Synonyms

• amicus curiae (formal)

Anagrams

• Macusi, Muisca, amusic, musaic, umiacs

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Latin

Etymology

From amō (“I love”) +‎ -icus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈmiː.kus/, [äˈmiːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.kus/, [äˈmiːkus]

• Audio (Classical):

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Adjective

amīcus (feminine amīca, neuter amīcum, comparative amīcior, superlative amīcissimus, adverb amīcē); first/second-declension adjective

1. friendly, amicable
2. welcome, pleasing

Declension

First/second-declension adjective

	singular				plural
	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

amīcus m (genitive amīcī); second declension

1. male friend
2. (Augustan and later) courtier, minister, counsellor

Declension

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

• amīca
• amīcābilis
• amīcālis
• amīcē
• amīciter
• amīcitia
• amīcō
• amīcōsus
• amīculus
• amīcus cūriae
• inimīcus
• peramicus

 

Descendants

• Corsican: amicu

  Gallurese: amicu

• Dalmatian: amaic
• Italian: amico
  • → Romanian: amic
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: amigo
• Old French: ami, amic (La Vie de Saint Alexis, 11^th century manuscripts)
  • Champenois: amin, anmin (Possesse)
  • Middle French: amy, ami
    • French: ami
      • Haitian Creole: zanmi
      • →⇒ Polish: amikoszoneria
  • Norman: amin
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: amigu
  • Mirandese: amigo, amio
• Old Occitan: amic
  • Occitan: amic, ami (Mistralian)
• Old Galician-Portuguese: amigo, amig'
  • Galician: amigo
  • Portuguese: amigo
• Old Spanish: amigo, amygo
  • Ladino:

    Hebrew script: אמיגו

    Latin script: amigo

  • Spanish: amigo
    • Chamicuro: ameko
    • → Cebuano: amigo
    • → English: amigo
    • → German: Amigo
    • → Papiamentu: amigu
    • → Turkish: amigo
    • → Yucatec Maya: amigoo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: amì
  • Romansch: ami, amitg, amei, amih
• Sardinian: amícu, amigu
• Sassarese: amiggu
• Sicilian: amicu
• Venetan: amigo
• → Albanian: mik
• → Czech: amík
• → Dutch: amice

References

• “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^[1], 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