amicitia
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.miːˈki.ti.a/, [a.miːˈkɪ.ti.a]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.miˈt͡ʃi.t͡si.a/, [a.miˈt͡ʃiː.t͡si.a]
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Noun
amīcitia f (genitive amīcitiae); first declension
- friendship
- Amicitiam alicui renuntiare.
- To abandon one's friendship.
- 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:
- Amicitiam populi Romani sibi ornamento et praesidio, non detrimento esse oportere, atque se hac spe petisse.
- That the friendship of the Roman people ought to prove to him an ornament and a safeguard, not a detriment; and that he sought it with that expectation.
- Amicitiam populi Romani sibi ornamento et praesidio, non detrimento esse oportere, atque se hac spe petisse.
- Amicitiam alicui renuntiare.
- an alliance
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | amīcitia | amīcitiae |
Genitive | amīcitiae | amīcitiārum |
Dative | amīcitiae | amīcitiīs |
Accusative | amīcitiam | amīcitiās |
Ablative | amīcitiā | amīcitiīs |
Vocative | amīcitia | amīcitiae |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- amicitia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- amicitia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- amicitia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- amicitia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to form a friendship with any one: amicitiam cum aliquo jungere, facere, inire, contrahere
- to keep up, foster a connection: amicitiam colere
- I am on good terms with a person: est or intercedit mihi cum aliquo amicitia
- to be bound by the closest ties of friendship: artissimo amicitiae vinculo or summa familiaritate cum aliquo coniunctum esse
- to be very old friends: vetustate amicitiae coniunctum esse
- to court a person's friendship: amicitiam alicuius appetere
- to gain some one's friendship; to become intimate with: in amicitiam alicuius recipi
- to gain some one's friendship; to become intimate with: ad alicuius amicitiam se conferre, se applicare
- to admit another into the circle of one's intimates: aliquem (tertium) ad (in) amicitiam ascribere
- to renounce, give up a friendship: amicitiam renuntiare
- to renounce, give up a friendship: amicitiam dissuere, dissolvere, praecīdere
- the word amicitia comes from amare: nomen amicitiae (or simply amicitia) dicitur ab amando
- the book treats of friendship: hic liber est de amicitia (not agit) or hoc libro agitur de am.
- to be on friendly terms with the Roman people: in amicitia populi Romani esse (Liv. 22. 37)
- to form a friendship with any one: amicitiam cum aliquo jungere, facere, inire, contrahere
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