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Latin
Etymology
From earlier suodālis, from Proto-Italic *sweðālis, equivalent to suescō (“I am used to”) with the suffix -ālis. Compare Ancient Greek ἧλιξ (hêlix).
Pronunciation
Noun
sodālis m or f (genitive sodālis); third declension
- companion, mate, fellow, intimate, comrade, crony
- Synonyms: amīcus, necessārius, comes, concordia
- accomplice, conspirator
- Synonym: coniūrātus
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī).
Derived terms
References
- “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