amicus

Abbreviation of amicus curiae.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.ɪ.kəs/, /ə.ˈmi.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 the root of amō (“I love”), perhaps with Proto-Indo-European *-ih₁ (instrumental suffix) + *-kos, as also in pudīcus, mendīcus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈmiː.kus/, [äˈmiːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.kus/, [äˈmiːkus]

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

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

Second-declension noun.

• “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

• “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