allied (of states) Copy link Outline 1. foedĕrātus2. sŏcĭus3. sŏcĭālis, e • allied (of states): 1. foedĕrātus: an a. people, f. populus, Cic. 2. sŏcĭus: an a. city, s. urbs. Liv.: a state a. with us, civitas s. nobis, Tac.: a. bands, s. agmina, Virg. 3. sŏcĭālis, e: an a. army, s. exercitus, Liv.: Tac. (For the fig. applications of the word, v. connected, related.)
ALLIED Copy link • ALLIEDp. p., foederatus: foedere junctus: socius (as ally). Related by blood or marriage, propinquus, cum aliquo propinquitate conjunctus (general term): necessarius (joined by ties of family or office, sometimes = PROP., of a distant degree of relationship): agnatua (by the father’s side): cognatus, cognatione conjunctus (by the mother’s side): affinis, affinitate or affinitatis vinculis conjunctus (connected by marriage): consanguineus, consanguinitate propinquua (by blood; especially of full brothers and sisters). Closely allied, arcta propinquitate or propinqua cognatione conjunctus: cum aliquo conjunctus. Figuratively, closely connected, propinquus, vicinus, finitimus (alicui or alicui rei). (The words are found in this connection and order), propinquus et finitimus: finitimus et vicinus. ☞ Affinis, in this sense, is without any sufficiently old authority.