sodalis

From earlier suodālis, from Proto-Italic *sweðālis, equivalent to suescō (“I am used to”) with the suffix -ālis. Compare Ancient Greek ἧλιξ (hêlix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɔˈdaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [soˈd̪aː.lis]

sodālis m or f (genitive sodālis); third declension

1. companion, mate, fellow, intimate, comrade, crony

   Synonyms: amīcus, necessārius, comes, concordia

2. accomplice, conspirator

   Synonym: coniūrātus

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī).

• sodālitās
• sodālicius

• “sodalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sodalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sodalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN