amicus

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Abbreviation of amicus curiae.

NounEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

• amicus curiae (formal)

AnagramsEdit

• Macusi, Muisca, amusic, umiacs

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From amō (“I love”) +‎ -icus.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈmiː.kus/, [aˈmiː.kʊs]

• Audio (Classical)

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AdjectiveEdit

amīcus (feminine amīca, neuter amīcum); first/second declension

1. friendly, amicable
2. welcome, pleasing

InflectionEdit

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	amīcus	amīca	amīcum		amīcī	amīcae	amīca
genitive	amīcī	amīcae	amīcī		amīcōrum	amīcārum	amīcōrum
dative	amīcō		amīcō		amīcīs
accusative	amīcum	amīcam	amīcum		amīcōs	amīcās	amīca
ablative	amīcō	amīcā	amīcō		amīcīs
vocative	amīce	amīca	amīcum		amīcī	amīcae	amīca

• comparative: amīcior, superlative: amīcissimus

NounEdit

amīcus m (genitive amīcī); second declension

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

InflectionEdit

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	amīcus	amīcī
genitive	amīcī	amīcōrum
dative	amīcō	amīcīs
accusative	amīcum	amīcōs
ablative	amīcō	amīcīs
vocative	amīce	amīcī

Derived termsEdit

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

DescendantsEdit

• Albanian: mik
• Asturian: amigu
• Catalan: amic
• Czech: amík
• Dalmatian: amaic
• Esperanto: amiko
• French: ami
• Friulian: amì
• Galician: amigo
• Ido: amiko
• Interlingua: amico

• Italian: amico
• Novial: amike
• Occitan amic
• Old Portuguese: amigo
• Portuguese: amigo
• Romanian: amic
• Sardinian: amicu, amigu
• Sicilian: amicu
• Spanish: amigo
• Venetian: amigo

ReferencesEdit

• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “amicus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “amicus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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