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Old Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *amīcitātem, derived from Latin amīcus (“friend”).
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Noun
amiztat f (usually uncountable)
- friendship, friendliness
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 30v. col. 1.
e uos comẽdo q̃ nõ o / uieſſedes amẏztad cõ eſtas / ẏẽtes.- and then he ordered you not to be friendly toward these people.
c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 111r:[…] nin podra ſu marido tomar otra muger. nin querer la bien nin aun non podra auer amiztat con otro ſi non con el que ella amare.- nor will her husband be able to take or love another woman; nor will she able to befriend a man other than the one she loves.
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