sodalis

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /soˈdaː.lis/, [s̠ɔˈd̪äːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /soˈda.lis/, [soˈd̪äːlis]

Noun

sodālis m or f (genitive sodālis); third declension

1. companion, mate, fellow, intimate, comrade, crony

   Synonyms: amīcus, necessārius, comes, concordia

2. accomplice, conspirator

   Synonym: coniūrātus

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	sodālis	sodālēs
genitive	sodālis	sodālium
dative	sodālī	sodālibus
accusative	sodālem	sodālēs sodālīs
ablative	sodālī	sodālibus
vocative	sodālis	sodālēs

Derived terms

• sodālitās
• sodālicius

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)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN