affinis

Latin

Etymology

From ad +‎ fīnis (“boundary”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

affīnis (neuter affīne); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. neighbouring, allied to, kindred
  2. partaking, taking part in, privy to, sharing, associated with
    Synonym: particeps
    Antonym: expers

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
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

Descendants

  • Translingual: Bombus affinis
  • Catalan: afí
  • English: affine
  • French: affin, affinité
  • German: affin
  • Italian: affine
  • Portuguese: afim
  • Romanian: afin
  • Spanish: afín
  • Swedish: affin
  • Russian: аффинный (affinnyj)

References

  • “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
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