amicus
English
Etymology
Abbreviation of amicus curiae.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæm.ɪ.kəs/, /ə.ˈmi.kəs/
Noun
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
- amicus curiae (formal)
Anagrams
- Casium, Macusi, Muisca, amusic, musaic, umiacs
Latin
Etymology
From the root of amō (“I love”), perhaps with Proto-Indo-European *-ih₁ (“instrumental suffix”) + *-kos, as also in pudīcus, mendīcus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈmiː.kus/, [äˈmiːkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈmi.kus/, [äˈmiːkus]
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Adjective
amīcus (feminine amīca, neuter amīcum, comparative amīcior, superlative amīcissimus, adverb amīcē); first/second-declension adjective
- friendly, well-disposed, amicable
- loyal, devoted to
- supporting, propitious, helpful
- welcome, dear
Declension
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 |
Noun
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
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 terms
- amīca
- amīcābilis
- amīcālis
- amīcē
- amīciter
- amīcitia
- amīcō
- amīcōsus
- amīculus
- amīcus cūriae
- inimīcus
- peramicus
Descendants
- Dalmatian:
- amaic
- Italo-Romance:
- Old Italian: amico
- Corsican: amicu
- Gallurese: amicu
- Italian: amico
- → Romanian: amic
- Neapolitan: amico
- Sicilian: amicu
- Old Italian: amico
- Padanian:
- Friulian: amì
- Romagnol: amìg
- Romansch: ami, amitg, amei, amih
- Venetian: amigo
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: amiu
- Franco-Provençal: amieu
- Old French: ami, amic
- Champenois: amin, anmin
- Middle French: amy, ami
- French: ami
- Haitian Creole: zanmi
- →⇒ Polish: amikoszoneria
- French: ami
- Norman: amin
- Old Franco-Provençal: amiu
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: amigo
- Catalan: amic
- Occitan: amic
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: amigu
- Mirandese: amigo, amio
- Old Portuguese: amigo, amig'
- Galician: amigo
- Portuguese: amigo
- Old Spanish: amigo, amygo
- Ladino: אמיגו, amigo
- Spanish: amigo (see there for further descendants)
- Insular Romance:
- Old Sardinian:
- Sardinian: amigu (most dialects), amicu (Nuorese)
- Sassarese: amiggu
- Old Sardinian:
- Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: mik
- Learned borrowings:
- → Czech: amík
- → Dutch: amice
References
- “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), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
- “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, 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)