FELLOW Copy link • FELLOW 1. s. A companion, Vid: Contemptuous expression for person, homo: homuncio. A silly or foolish fellow, mirum caput: a dapper little fellow, homo totus de capsula (Sen., Ep., 115, in.; our, “as if taken out of a bandbox”). Member of a learned institution, socius. I was lately elected a fellow of the (French) Academy, *nuper Academiae litterarum elegantiorum Parisinae socius ascriptus sum (Ruhnken): to be elected a fellow of the (French) Institute, *sodalem Instituti regii Francici cooptari (Wyttenbach): a fellow of the Academy of Inscript., *in sodalitium Academiae Inscriptionum ascisci (Wyttenbach). An equal, par (opposed to superior). 2. v. Vid: MATCH.