Latin

Noun

societās f ‎(genitive societātis); third declension

1. A union for a common purpose; society, fellowship, partnership, association, community, union; affinity.
2. (metonymically) Those united for a common purpose; a company or society of such persons.
3. (by extension) A copartnership, membership, or association for trading purposes.
4. (by extension) A share or stake in a partnership or association
5. (by extension) A political league, alliance, confederacy.

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• societas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• societas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SOCIETAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “societas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be united by having a common language: eiusdem linguae societate coniunctum esse cum aliquo (De Or. 3. 59. 223)
    
  • social life: vitae societas
    
  • to associate with some one: societatem inire, facere cum aliquo
    
  • to unite isolated individuals into a society: dissipatos homines in (ad) societatem vitae convocare (Tusc. 1. 25. 62)
    
• societas in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin