amicus
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Abbreviation of amicus curiae.
NounEdit
amicus (plural amici)
- (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
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈmiː.kus/, [aˈmiː.kʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈmi.kus/, [aˈmiː.kus]
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AdjectiveEdit
amīcus (feminine amīca, neuter amīcum, comparative amīcior, superlative amīcissimus, adverb amīcē); first/second-declension adjective
DeclensionEdit
First/second-declension adjective.
| 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 | |
NounEdit
amīcus m (genitive amīcī, feminine amīca); second declension
- male friend
- amīcum parāre ― to make a friend; to befriend
- (Augustan and later) courtier, minister, counsellor
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | amīcus | amīcī |
| Genitive | amīcī | amīcōrum |
| Dative | amīcō | amīcīs |
| Accusative | amīcum | amīcōs |
| Ablative | amīcō | amīcīs |
| Vocative | amīce | amīcī |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Corsican: amicu
- Gallurese: amicu
- Dalmatian: amaic
- Italian: amico
- → Romanian: amic
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: amigo
- Old Francoprovençal: amiu
- Franco-Provençal: amieu
- Old French: ami, amic
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan: amic
- Old Portuguese: amigo, amig'
- Old Spanish: amigo, amygo
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: amícu, amigu
- Sassarese: amiggu
- Sicilian: amicu
- Venetian: amigo
- → Albanian: mik
- → Czech: amík
- → Dutch: amice
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
- amicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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
- he received from the senate the title of friend: a senatu amicus appellatus est (B. G. 1. 3)