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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *sokjotāts. Equivalent to socius + -tas.
Pronunciation
Noun
societās f (genitive societātis); third declension
- society, fellowship, partnership, association, community, union; affinity (a union for a common purpose)
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.18.24:
- Vir amīcālis ad societātem, magis amīcus erit quam frāter.
- A man amiable in society, shall be more friendly than a brother.
(Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
- (metonymically) a company or society (those united for a common purpose)
- (by extension) a copartnership, membership, or association (a union for trading purposes)
- (by extension) a share, stake (membership in a partnership or association)
- (by extension) a league, alliance, confederacy (a union or association for political purposes)
- Synonyms: amīcitia, cōnsociātiō
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
From nominative societās:
From accusative societātem:
References
- “societas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “societas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- societas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- societas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be united by having a common language: eiusdem linguae societate coniunctum esse cum aliquo (De Or. 3. 59. 223)
- social life: vitae societas
- to associate with some one: societatem inire, facere cum aliquo
- to unite isolated individuals into a society: dissipatos homines in (ad) societatem vitae convocare (Tusc. 1. 25. 62)
- “societas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sŏcietas”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 607