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amico
amico
See also: amicò
Italian
Etymology
From Latin amīcus. Compare Catalan amic, Esperanto amiko, French ami, Ido amiko, Interlingua amico, Novial amike, Portuguese amigo, Romanian amic, Sardinian amícu, Spanish amigo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ˈmi.ko/ m
- IPA(key): /a.ˈmi.tʃi/ m pl
- IPA(key): /a.ˈmi.ka/ f
- IPA(key): /a.ˈmi.ke/ f pl
Noun
amico m (plural amici), amica f (plural amiche)
Related terms
Derived terms
- amico dell’uomo - “friend of the man” (idiomatically equivalent to "man's best friend"), dog
Verb
amico
- first-person singular present indicative of amicarsi
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.mi.koː/, [ˈa.mɪ.koː]
Etymology 1
From amīcus (“friendly; friend”) + -ō.
Verb
amīcō (present infinitive amīcāre, perfect active amīcāvī, supine amīcātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) I make friendly to myself.
Inflection
Etymology 2
Noun
amīcō
References
- amico in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “amico”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) to be friendly with any one: uti aliquo amico
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(ambiguous) to be friendly with any one: uti aliquo amico