germanitas

From germānus (“full brother”) +‎ -tās.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡerˈmaː.ni.tas/, [ɡɛrˈmäːnɪt̪äs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒerˈma.ni.tas/, [d͡ʒerˈmäːnit̪äs]

germānitās f (genitive germānitātis); third declension

1. brotherhood, sisterhood, relationship between siblings
2. affinity, similarity, resemblance

Third-declension noun.

• germānē
• germānitus
• germānus, germāna
• germen
• germinō

• Asturian: hermandá
• Catalan: germandat
• Galician: irmandade
• Portuguese: irmandade
• Spanish: hermandad
• → Portuguese: germanidade (learned)

• “germanitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “germanitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• germanitas 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)
• germanitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

germanitas

1. plural of germanita