What is the Latin word for friendship?

The usual Latin words for “friendship” are amīcitia, necessitūdō, ūtor; also cōnsuētūdō, coniūnctiō, familiāritās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“friendship” in Latin

amīcitiafriendship; an alliance necessitūdōnecessity, need; distress; relationship, friendship, bond, intimacy; relatives, friends, family, kindred, connections ūtorto use, make use of, employ; to enjoy, indulge in, take advantage of; to experience, undergo, encounter cōnsuētūdōThe act of habituating; state of being habituated or accustomed, habituation.; A custom, habit, use, usage, convention, coniūnctiōconjunction; combination; association, affinity, relationship familiāritāsintimacy; close friendship; familiarity iungōto join, unite, fasten, yoke, harness, attach; esp. of the hand: to clasp, join; of a treaty or agreement: to join, unit īnstituōto set up, establish, found, institute or arrange; to train, teach, instruct, educate (usually by a course of training);conciliōTo unite; to bring together; to reconcile; to conciliate; To recommend.; To procure; to gain.ineōto enter, go into; to begin; to have sexual intercourse

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

friendship

amicitia: necessitudo (friendly intercourse between persons in general, in business, between relations, etc.): usus: consuetudo (habitual intercourse). An ordinary friendship, amicitia mediocris: close friendship, conjunctio: intimate friendship, familiaritas: to make friendship with anybody, amicitiam cum aliquo facere, jungere, instituere, conciliare, inire, sibi parere; ad amicitiam alicujus se conferre, se applicare, se adjungere; amicitia aliquem sibi conjungere: a closer friendship, amiciorem aliquem sibi conciliare: an intimate friendship, consuetudinem jungere; familiaritatem contrahere cum aliquo; in consuetudinem alicujus se dare: to obtain anybody’s friendship, in amicitiam alicujus recipi: intimate friendship, in alicujus familiaritatem venire, intrare; in alicujus intimam amicitiam pervenire: to steal into anybody’s friendship, in alicujus amicitiam se insinuare: to vow friendship to anybody, amicitiae alicujus se devovere: to entertain or feel friendship for anybody, amore suo aliquem amplecti, prosequi: to break or violate friendship, amicitiam violare, dirumpere, dissolvere, discindere: to break off one’s friendship with anybody by degrees, amicitiam sensim dissuere (opposed to repente praecidere, to break it off abruptly): friendship begins, increases, lasts, drops, or is declining, amicitia oritur, crescit (or accrescit), manet, cadit: our friendship is a most intimate one, nihil est nostra familiaritate conjunctius; nihil esse potest conjunctius, quam nos inter nos sumus: to show anybody much friendship, multa officia in aliquem conferre or alicui praestare; officiosum esse in aliquem: all possible (marks of) friendship, omnibus, quibus possum, officiis aliquem colo, prosequor: you will do me a great act of friendship, if, etc., or by, etc., gratissimum mihi feceris; magnum beneficium mihi dederis: to do, allow, etc., anything out of friendship toward anybody, dare, concedere, largiri, etc., alicui aliquid: the tie of friendship, amicitiae or amoris vinculum: demonstration of friendship, *amicitiae significatio: feelings or sentiments of friendship, officium (Cic., Fam., 10, 1, extr.): a service rendered from friendship, officium: beneficium (especially with relation to the consequence it has for the receiver; Vid: Caes., B.G., 1, 33; Nep., Att., 3, 1).

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What is the Latin word for friendship?: The usual Latin words for “friendship” are amīcitia, necessitūdō, ūtor; also cōnsuētūdō, coniūnctiō, familiāritās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.