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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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• society:
    1. I. Association (in the widest sense): sŏciĕtas, f. alone, freq. in Cic.: Join: s. conjunctioque hominum, Cic. Leg. 1, 10, 28: congregatio hominum et s. communitasque generis humani, id. Fam. 4, 2, 4. Cf. conjunctio congregatioque hominum, id. Fin. 3, 20, 65: omnis humana consortio, id. Off. 3, 6, 26: consociatio hominum atque communitas, id. Off. 1, 44, 157. For s. (of the inhabitants of a state): v. community.
    2. II. Association for a definite purpose, such as the Royal Society, Society of Antiquaries, etc.:
      1. 1. sŏciĕtas also used in the sense of partnership: v. partnership.
      2. 2. collēgium, corpus (rare), ūnĭversĭtas (of merchants, tradesmen): Gai.: Plin.: Marc.: v. guild, company, club, corporation, board. Also s. (= college, an educational institution): *collegium. Phr.: fellow of a s., *socius.
      3. 3. sŏdālĭtas, originally = our club, q. v.: but afterwards a secret illegal s., Cic.
      4. 4. sŏdālĭcium (-tium) = sodalitas: in good sense, Auct. Her. 4, 51, 64: in bad sense, Cic. Planc. 15, 36: Mariana s., Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 116.
      5. 5. factio, coĭtio (in bad sense), pars, sŏdālĭtas, sŏdālĭcium (see above), a political s.
    3. III. Temporary association for a definite purpose: e. g. meetings of all kinds: v. meeting.
    4. IV. Intimate association: convictus, Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21: congressio, c. familiarium, Cic.: v. intercourse, intimacy. Phr.: to go into s., hominum coetus et celebrationes obire, Cic. Off. 1, 4, 12: to avoid one's s., aditum alicujus sermonemque defugere, Caes. B. G. 6, 13. to cultivate eagerly one's s., aliquem assectari, Suet. Caes. 19: to enjoy the daily s. of learned men as messmates, uti familiaribus et quotidianis convictoribus hominibus doctis, Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 5: id. Att. 3, 7, celebritas and homines are opp. to solitudo. (N.B.--Society [in a gen. sense] may sometimes be rendered by homines with an adj. or by the adj. alone. e. g. bad s., mali homines: learned s., docti homines.)
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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• SOCIETY
  • Union, societas. To live in society, congregatos esse (especially of animals; opposed to solivagos esse; Vid: Cic., Tusc., 5, 13, 88); societatem caritatis coiisse inter se (from mutual inclination): man is born for society homines natura sunt congregabiles; natura nos sociabiles fecit; natura hominem conciliat homini et ad orationis et ad vitae societatem; natura impellit hominem ut hominum coetus et celebrationes et esse et a se obiri velit.
  • Companionship. To give one’s society to anybody, esse cum aliquo (to be with him); aliquem comitari; alicui comitem se addere or adjungere (to accompany anybody as an attendant) in the society of anybody, cum aliquo: to shun the society of anybody, alicujus aditum sermonemque defugere: to seek the society of anybody, alicujus consuetudinem appetere: bad society spoils good manners, malignus comes quamvis candido et simplici rubiginem suam affricat (Sen., Ep., 7, 6).
  • Union of several persons for a common end, societas (especially of litterary societies, trading companies, etc.): sodalitas (of colleagues; e.g., of certain priests at Rome; then, general term, of any society in which any secret exists; e.g., of Free-masons with us): factio (a party, especially for a bad purpose; Vid: Trajanus, ap. Plin., Ep., 10, 36 [43], 1): collegium (a corporation; e.g., of merchants, artisans, priests, etc.). To enter into society with anybody, societatem cum aliquo facere, inire, coire (general term); rationem communicare cum aliquo (to make common cause with anybody); societatem contrahere cum aliquo (to enter into a partnership): to receive anybody into a society, aliquem in societatem assumere or ascribere (general term) aliquem in collegium cooptare (into a corporation): to dissolve a society, societatem dirimere: human society, societas humana, hominum, or generis humani: civil society, societas civilis.
  • A body of persons united for one object, coetus, conventus hominum or amicorum (general term, an assembly of friends): circulus (a social circle): congressus (an assembly which meets together for some purpose): acroasis (an assembly of learned persons in which anything is read): sodalicium (an assembly of colleagues, especially of certain priests and others, in order to celebrate the private worship of a deity with feasting): a society of friends, congressio familiarium: a large society, frequentia, celebritas; celeberrimus virorum mulierumque conventus: to be fond of attending societies and meetings, circulos et sessiunculas consectari.