affinitas

affinitas

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Latin ad
Latin fīnis
Latin affīnis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin affīnitās

    From affīnis + -tās.

    Noun

    affīnitās f (genitive affīnitātis); third declension

    1. relationship or alliance by marriage; kinship
      • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 246–247:
        PAMPHILUS: Prō deum atque hominum fidem! / Nūllōn ego Chremētis pactō affīnitātem effugere poterō?
        PAMPHILUS: By the faith of gods and men! / Is there no way for me to escape the kinship of Chremes?
        (In other words, Pamphilus desperately wants to avoid having an arranged marriage to the daughter of Chremes.)
    2. relationship, affinity, union, connection

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative affīnitās affīnitātēs
    genitive affīnitātis affīnitātum
    dative affīnitātī affīnitātibus
    accusative affīnitātem affīnitātēs
    ablative affīnitāte affīnitātibus
    vocative affīnitās affīnitātēs

    Descendants

    • Catalan: afinitat
    • English: affinity
    • French: affinité
    • Italian: affinità
    • Portuguese: afinidade
    • Romanian: afinitate
    • Spanish: afinidad

    References

    • “affinitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “affinitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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