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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• affinity:
    1. I. Relationship by marriage: affīnĭtas: P. Crassus bound himself closely to Galba by a., P. Crassus cum Galba affinitate sese devinxit, Cic.: they report that Latinus entered into an a. with Aeneas, Latinum a. cum Aenea junxisse tradunt, Liv.
    2. II. Natural connexion, or resemblance:
      1. 1. cognātĭo: all the virtues are connected together by a certain a., omnes virtutes c. quadam inter se conjunctae sunt, Cic.: a. of pursuits, c. studiorum, Cic.: Quint.
      2. 2. affīnĭtas (rare): the a. of the letters of the alphabet, af. literarum, Quint.: Gell. Phr.: the nature of the gods has no a. with our senses, natura deum longe remota sensibus ab nostris, Lucr.: you have not the slightest a. with the fairness and modesty of Ti. Gracchus, tu a Ti. Gracchi aequitate ac pudore longissime remotus es, Cic.: v. connexion.
    3. III. Chem. t. t.: a mutual tendency to combination: *affinitas.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• AFFINITY
  • affinitas. To make affinity with (Bible, Tr.), affinitatem cum aliquo conjungere; cum aliquo affinitate sese conjungere, sese devincire. Relations by affinity, affines: affinitate conjuncti. To be connected by affinity, affinitate inter se jungi, devinciri.
  • Close connection, similarity, cognatio, conjunctio. To have an affinity with anything, cognationem habere cum aliqua re; propinquum, finitimum, propinquum et finitimum esse alicui rei: there is some affinity between our souls and the gods, animus tenetur quadam conjunctione deorum: not to bear the least affinity to anything, remotissimum esse a re.
  • Power of attracting, *attrahendi, quae dicitur, vis (propr.): *vis ad se illiciendi or attrahendi (IMPROP.).