affinis
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ad + fīnis (“boundary”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /afˈfiː.nis/, [äfˈfiːnɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /afˈfi.nis/, [äfˈfiːnis]
Adjective[edit]
affīnis (neuter affīne); third-declension two-termination adjective
- neighbouring, allied to, kindred
- partaking, taking part in, privy to, sharing, associated with
Declension[edit]
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | affīnis | affīne | affīnēs | affīnia | |
Genitive | affīnis | affīnium | |||
Dative | affīnī | affīnibus | |||
Accusative | affīnem | affīne | affīnēs affīnīs |
affīnia | |
Ablative | affīnī | affīnibus | |||
Vocative | affīnis | affīne | affīnēs | affīnia |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “affinis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- affinis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be almost culpable: affinem esse culpae
- to be almost culpable: affinem esse culpae