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affinis
affinis
Latin
Adjective
affīnis m, f (neuter affīne); third declension
- neighbouring, allied to, kindred
Inflection
Third declension.
| 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 | affīnia | |
| ablative | affīnī | affīnibus | |||
| vocative | affīnis | affīne | affīnēs | affīnia | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- French: affin, affinité
- Italian: affine
- Portuguese: afim
- Romanian: afin
- Spanish: afín
- Russian: аффинный (affinnyj)
References
- affinis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “affinis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be almost culpable: affinem esse culpae
- to be almost culpable: affinem esse culpae