# amicus
## English
### Etymology

Abbreviation of amicus curiae.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈæm.ɪ.kəs/, /əˈmi.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 amō (“I love”) +‎ -īcus, with the ending perhaps derived from Proto-Indo-European *-ih₁ (instrumental suffix) + *-kos, as also in pudīcus, mendīcus.

### Pronunciation

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

### 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.

### 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.

### 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
* Padanian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Ligurian: amigo
*** Lombard: amis
*** Piedmontese: amis
*** Romagnol: amìg
** Friulian: amì
** Romansch: ami, amitg, amei, amih
** Venetan: amigo
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: amic
** Franco-Provençal: ami
** Old French: ami (see there for further descendants)
** Occitan: amic
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: amigo
** Asturian: amigu
** Mirandese: amigo, amio
** Old Galician-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
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: mik (early)
** → 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