amicus

Abbreviation of amicus curiae.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.ɪ.kəs/, /əˈmi.kəs/

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.

• amicus curiae (formal)

• Casium, Macusi, Muisca, amusic, musaic, umiacs

From amō (“to love”) +‎ -īcus, with the ending perhaps derived from Proto-Indo-European *-ih₁ (instrumental suffix) + *-kos, as also in pudīcus, mendīcus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈmiː.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈmiː.kus]

amīcus (feminine amīca, neuter amīcum, comparative amīcior, superlative amīcissimus, adverb amīcē); first/second-declension adjective

1. friendly, well-disposed, amicable
2. loyal, devoted to
3. supporting, propitious, helpful
4. welcome, dear

First/second-declension adjective.

amīcus m (genitive amīcī, feminine amīca); second declension

1. male friend

   Synonyms: necessārius, comes, sodālis, concordia

   amīcum parāre ― to make a friend; to befriend

   • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 3.1.1–4:

     [Agorastocles] Ita me di ament, tardo amico nihil est quicquam inaequius,
     praesertim homini amanti, qui quidquid agit properat omnia.
     Sicut ego hos duco advocatos, homines spissigradissimos,
     tardiores quam corbitae sunt in tranquillo mari.

     [Agorastocles] May gods so love me, nothing is more unfair than having a slothful friend, even more so for a man in love, who in doing anything must all expedite. So I lead them, having called them forth, the most slow-paced men of them all, slower than freight ships [corbitae] upon a quiet sea.

2. (Augustan and later) courtier, minister, counsellor

Second-declension noun.

• “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, 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.
• amicus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• 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
    

• “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